Upgrade to remove ads
Busy. Please wait.
Log in with Clever
or

show password
Forgot Password?

Don't have an account?  Sign up 
Sign up using Clever
or

Username is available taken
show password


Make sure to remember your password. If you forget it there is no way for StudyStack to send you a reset link. You would need to create a new account.
Your email address is only used to allow you to reset your password. See our Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.


Already a StudyStack user? Log In

Reset Password
Enter the associated with your account, and we'll email you a link to reset your password.

history stack

Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in each of the black spaces below before clicking on it to display the answer.
        Help!  

Question
Answer
joint stock company   a buisness formed by a group of people who jointly make an investment and share the profits and losses.  
🗑
starving time   a time that killed all but 60-500 colonists in jamestown virginia  
🗑
authority   power or right to rule.  
🗑
headright system   colonist paid their own way to virginia and recieved 50 acres of land. also get additional 50 acres for anyone else brought over including family or servants.  
🗑
indentured servent   a colonist who received free passage to north america in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.  
🗑
factor   a crop broker who managed the trade between southern planters and their customers  
🗑
bacon's rebellion   an attack led by nathaniel bacon against american indians and the colonial government in virginia.  
🗑
religious persecution   mistreatment of a person because of his or her religious beliefes or pracitces.  
🗑
refuge   a safe place.  
🗑
royal colony   a colony owned by a king or queen.  
🗑
proprietary colony    
🗑
slave codes   laws passed in the colonies to control slaves.  
🗑
toleration act of 1649   a maryland law that made restricting the religious rights of a christians a crime the first law guaranteeing religious freedom to be passed in america.  
🗑
representative government    
🗑
government   a form of political system wich 1 man or group controlls a state  
🗑
middle passage   a voyage that brought enslaved africans across the atlantic ocean to north america and the west indies.  
🗑
african diaspora   the population of dicplaced africans and their decendants around the world  
🗑
triangular trade   trading networks in wich goods and slaves moved among ingland, the american colonies, and africa.  
🗑


   

Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
 
To hide a column, click on the column name.
 
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
 
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
 
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.

 
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.

  Normal Size     Small Size show me how
Created by: Philip F
Popular U.S. History sets