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Colonial America
1492-1754
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What was the most influential Native American alliance (they ceased wars between tribes) | The Iroquis Confederacy |
| What was the biggest difference between Indians and settlers? | the concept of private property |
| This was a joint stock company that founded colonies for a profit | The VA company |
| What was the main source of tobacco/crop labor before the 1675? | Indentured Servants |
| What was the system that mandated that whoever paid for an indentured servant's immigration could earn 50 acres of land? | headright system |
| This act exposed tensions between the poor (freed indentured servants) and the rich | Bacon's Rebellion |
| What spread slavery? | Tobacco |
| What was the name of the rebellion when slaves tried to run away to Florida in order to gain freedom? | Stono's Rebellion |
| This group of people escaped from England to escape religios restrictions/oppression and the recession. They believed in strict moral conduct, a close state/church relationship & did not believe in religious diversity (led by John Winthrop). | The Puritans |
| Who challenged clerical authority & backed it up with revelations from God then was banished to Rhode Island? | Anne Hutchinson |
| Who founded Rhode Island with the idea of religious freedom/toleration and thought that states could not handle religious matters? | Roger Williams |
| This colony was founded by William Penn. It granted religious freedom, gave women larger roles in church, & had a repres. assembly. | Pennsylvania |
| This law stated that certain colonial products could only be sent to England | Navigation Acts |
| Married women in colonial times could not own _____ | property |
| This idea was based on the consent of the governed | republicanism |
| Who was the first published African American poet that created the African American genre? | Phyllis Wheatley |
| Who was the 1st woman that was published in colonial America? | Anne Bradstreet |
| Who was the founder of Maryland? | Lord Baltimore |
| This document allowed religious freedom for all Christians and protected Catholics | Maryland Act of Toleration |
| He gave the colonists tobacco as a cash crop | John Rolfe |
| They believed in equality of men/women, nonviolence, resistance to military | Quakers |
| What war united tribes to kill English settlers? (The colonists won) | King Philip's War (AKA Metacomb) |
| What act stated that GB had the right to tax colonists and make decisions for them? | Declaratory Act |
| Who came up with "no taxation without representation"? | John Dickinson |
| What act established the Catholic church as the official religion in Quebec for the French? | The Quebec Act |
| What established the line of demarcation in the New World (divided E from W)? | Treaty of Tordesillas |
| This country wanted to settle N. America for economic purposes and gold | Spain |
| This country wanted to settle N. America to loo for a NW passage and expand an economy based on fur, fish, and trade | France |
| This country wanted to settle N. America for religious/economic purposes | England |
| What was the first government/assembly in N. America? | House of Burgesses |
| Who lead the Plymouth colony? | William Bradford |
| Who were the pilgrims who wanted to break away from the England church? | Separatists |
| The first constitution in history for representative gov't | Fundamental orders of CT |
| est. by puritans who left to escape persecution; John Winthrop theocracy=church was paramount in all decisions (political & religious) | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Mayflower compact | a document written by the Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government |
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