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Iroquois Confederacy
Answer: ✔✔ A powerful alliance of Indian tribes that was the only one to remain
neutral during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War). The tribe had
previously been subject to a peace treaty with the British and were noted as one of
three powers of North America. After the Seven Years' War, the alliance with the
Iroquois and the British diminished, and they began contesting each other for
power over the Ohio Valley.
Columbian Exchange
Answer: ✔✔ An exchange of goods, ideas, and skills from the Old World (Europe,
Asia, and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.
The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the
Americas.
Joint Stock Company
Answer: ✔✔ A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder
contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's
profits and debts.
Virginia Company
Answer: ✔✔ 1607. Virginia Company sponsored English colonization in
Jamestown, VA. English men didn’t want to work/build the colony. It was a
swampy area—hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes with Indians.
Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the colonists established trade with
the Indians, and the colony survived. This was the first permanent English
settlement.
Jamestown
Answer: ✔✔ 1607. Virginia Company sponsored English colonization in
Jamestown, VA. English men didn’t want to work/build the colony. It was a
swampy area—hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes with Indians.
Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the colonists established trade with
,the Indians, and the colony survived. This was the first permanent English
settlement.
Indentured Servant
Answer: ✔✔ Worked for 7 years without pay in exchange for passage to the New
World.
Headright System
Answer: ✔✔ This system offered a powerful incentive for ordinary English
farmers to settle in Virginia, promising the possibility of large agricultural
enterprises worked by many laborers to the wealthy. It ensured a way for farmers
to simultaneously obtain both land and labor by importing workers from England
and eventually authorized landowning men of VA to elect representatives to the
House of Burgesses.
Bacon's Rebellion
Answer: ✔✔ 1676. 29-year-old Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersmen who had been
forced into the untamed backcountry in search of arable land to brutally attack
Indians, friendly and hostile alike. Bacon and the others were tired of Governor
Berkeley refusing to retaliate after some Indians attacked their frontier settlements.
The rebels also chased Berkeley from Jamestown and "put the torch to the capital."
Stono Rebellion
Answer: ✔✔ A slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of
South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies,
with 21 whites and 44 blacks killed.
Puritans
Answer: ✔✔ A member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th
centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth
as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
John Winthrop
Answer: ✔✔ A wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in
the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in what is
now New England after Plymouth Colony.
"City Upon A Hill"
Answer: ✔✔ Initially invoked by English-born Puritan leader John Winthrop. The
, concept became central to the United States' conception of itself as an exceptional
and exemplary nation.
Anne Hutchinson
Answer: ✔✔ A Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important participant
in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony
from 1636 to 1638.
Roger Williams
Answer: ✔✔ An English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of
religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the
colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities.
"Halfway Covenant"
Answer: ✔✔ Modified the "covenant", or the agreement between the church and
its adherents, to admit to baptism—but not "full communion"—the unconverted
children of existing members. Weakened the distinction between the "elect" and
others. Further diluted the spiritual purity of the original settlers' godly community.
King Philip's War
Answer: ✔✔ The most devastating war between the colonists and the Native
Americans in New England.
First Great Awakening - ANSWER✔✔ an evangelical and revitalization
movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the
American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on
American Protestantism.
William Penn - ANSWER✔✔ an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher,
early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North
American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Quakers - ANSWER✔✔ a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian
movement founded by George Fox circa 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles
Mercantilism - ANSWER✔✔ the economic theory that trade generates wealth and
is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government
should encourage by means of protectionism.
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Updated 2025
Iroquois Confederacy
Answer: ✔✔ A powerful alliance of Indian tribes that was the only one to remain
neutral during the French and Indian War (Seven Years' War). The tribe had
previously been subject to a peace treaty with the British and were noted as one of
three powers of North America. After the Seven Years' War, the alliance with the
Iroquois and the British diminished, and they began contesting each other for
power over the Ohio Valley.
Columbian Exchange
Answer: ✔✔ An exchange of goods, ideas, and skills from the Old World (Europe,
Asia, and Africa) to the New World (North and South America) and vice versa.
The global transfer of foods, plants, and animals during the colonization of the
Americas.
Joint Stock Company
Answer: ✔✔ A company made up of a group of shareholders. Each shareholder
contributes some money to the company and receives some share of the company's
profits and debts.
Virginia Company
Answer: ✔✔ 1607. Virginia Company sponsored English colonization in
Jamestown, VA. English men didn’t want to work/build the colony. It was a
swampy area—hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes with Indians.
Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the colonists established trade with
the Indians, and the colony survived. This was the first permanent English
settlement.
Jamestown
Answer: ✔✔ 1607. Virginia Company sponsored English colonization in
Jamestown, VA. English men didn’t want to work/build the colony. It was a
swampy area—hard to grow crops. There was disease and disputes with Indians.
Once women arrived, tobacco was planted, and the colonists established trade with
,the Indians, and the colony survived. This was the first permanent English
settlement.
Indentured Servant
Answer: ✔✔ Worked for 7 years without pay in exchange for passage to the New
World.
Headright System
Answer: ✔✔ This system offered a powerful incentive for ordinary English
farmers to settle in Virginia, promising the possibility of large agricultural
enterprises worked by many laborers to the wealthy. It ensured a way for farmers
to simultaneously obtain both land and labor by importing workers from England
and eventually authorized landowning men of VA to elect representatives to the
House of Burgesses.
Bacon's Rebellion
Answer: ✔✔ 1676. 29-year-old Nathaniel Bacon led frontiersmen who had been
forced into the untamed backcountry in search of arable land to brutally attack
Indians, friendly and hostile alike. Bacon and the others were tired of Governor
Berkeley refusing to retaliate after some Indians attacked their frontier settlements.
The rebels also chased Berkeley from Jamestown and "put the torch to the capital."
Stono Rebellion
Answer: ✔✔ A slave rebellion that began on 9 September 1739, in the colony of
South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies,
with 21 whites and 44 blacks killed.
Puritans
Answer: ✔✔ A member of a group of English Protestants of the late 16th and 17th
centuries who regarded the Reformation of the Church of England under Elizabeth
as incomplete and sought to simplify and regulate forms of worship.
John Winthrop
Answer: ✔✔ A wealthy English Puritan lawyer and one of the leading figures in
the founding of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, the first major settlement in what is
now New England after Plymouth Colony.
"City Upon A Hill"
Answer: ✔✔ Initially invoked by English-born Puritan leader John Winthrop. The
, concept became central to the United States' conception of itself as an exceptional
and exemplary nation.
Anne Hutchinson
Answer: ✔✔ A Puritan spiritual adviser, mother of 15, and important participant
in the Antinomian Controversy that shook the infant Massachusetts Bay Colony
from 1636 to 1638.
Roger Williams
Answer: ✔✔ An English Protestant theologian who was an early proponent of
religious freedom and the separation of church and state. In 1636, he began the
colony of Providence Plantation, which provided a refuge for religious minorities.
"Halfway Covenant"
Answer: ✔✔ Modified the "covenant", or the agreement between the church and
its adherents, to admit to baptism—but not "full communion"—the unconverted
children of existing members. Weakened the distinction between the "elect" and
others. Further diluted the spiritual purity of the original settlers' godly community.
King Philip's War
Answer: ✔✔ The most devastating war between the colonists and the Native
Americans in New England.
First Great Awakening - ANSWER✔✔ an evangelical and revitalization
movement that swept Protestant Europe and British America, and especially the
American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, leaving a permanent impact on
American Protestantism.
William Penn - ANSWER✔✔ an English real estate entrepreneur, philosopher,
early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North
American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania
Quakers - ANSWER✔✔ a member of the Religious Society of Friends, a Christian
movement founded by George Fox circa 1650 and devoted to peaceful principles
Mercantilism - ANSWER✔✔ the economic theory that trade generates wealth and
is stimulated by the accumulation of profitable balances, which a government
should encourage by means of protectionism.
