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Who are the Powhatan?
The Jamestown settlers encountered these Native Americans who lived in complex societies with permanent settlements.
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What is Catholicism?
Both the French and the Spanish attempted to convert natives to this religion.
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What is the Chesapeake region?
Cash crop agriculture in this region led to an increase in both indentured servants and enslaved Africans.
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What was running away, family adaptations, religion, sabotage, passive resistance, rebellion, ...
Ways in which enslaved Africans resisted the dehumanizing effects of slavery.
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What is evangelicalism?
Cross-denominational movement that started with the Great Awakening and promotes the doctrine of salvation by grace (to be "born again")
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What is plantation agriculture OR tobacco?
The economic activity that "saved" Jamestown.
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What is Spanish Florida?
In the Stono Rebellion, enslaved Africans were trying to reach maroon communities in this Spanish-held territory.
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What is the total population of the British colonies?
It increased tenfold between 1607 and 1750.
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What are the Middle Colonies and New England?
The port cities of these two regions held significant minorities of enslaved people.
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Who were the Puritans?
They were forced to become more tolerant after the Glorious Revolution of 1688.
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What is the Chesapeake region?
Jamestown belonged to this region of the British North American colonies.
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What is intermarriage OR marriage alliances?
French fur traders gained status in Native American tribes with this practice.
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What is New England?
The most populous region of the colonies by 1750.
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What are slave codes?
The strict racial system that developed in British colonial societies was enforced by these laws imposed by the elite planters who dominated the Houses of Burgesses.
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What is the Enlightenment?
This intellectual movement led to a decline in religious commitment in the latter half of the 17th century.
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What is the Virginia Company?
The name of the joint-stock company that founded the colony.
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What are Catholic missions?
The Spanish built a hundreds of these throughout the Southwest and along the California coast.
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What is conflict?
As colonial populations increased and pushed westward onto the frontier this type of social interaction also increased.
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What is Bacon's Rebellion?
The anger of backcountry colonists and the class divisions that led to this event helped promote the replacement of indentured servants with enslaved Africans.
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What is the Great Awakening?
The questioning of church authority within this religious movement led to greater independence and diversity of thought.
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Who is John Smith?
As founder of the colony, his primary objective was to increase support for the colonies from the monarchy and investors.
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Who are the Jesuits?
Also known as members of the Society of Jesus, these types of priests came from France to convert the natives.
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What is South Carolina?
The high ratio of African slaves in this colony helped them preserve and adapt African traditions.
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What is positive population growth among enslaved Africans?
The reason that British North American colonies had a lower demand for slave labor from the international market.
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Who is Jonathan Edwards or George Whitefield?
A preacher of the Great Awakening?
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