2. Colonial America (1607-1754)
The experiences of Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson demonstrate
the strict adherence to Puritan orthodoxy required in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
The consumer revolution of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century, which brought finished goods from London to the colonies,
tied England and its colonies closer together in a shared world of literature and fashion.
The closest modern-day equivalent of a joint-stock company is
A corporation, with shares spread among many investors
The Mayflower Compact established
A social contract among the Pilgrims, which became a foundation of representative democracy
King Philip's War and the Anglo-Powhatan Wars show that
Although the English colonies in the Chesapeake and New England differed in many ways, white settlers in both regions pursued wars of extermination against Native Americans
Sir Walter Raleigh was a promoter for the Roanoke Colony, which is most notable for
Disappearing
The career of the privateer Sir Francis Drake shows that
During the early Age of Exploration, England preferred to reap the rewards of the New World through piracy rather than by starting a colony of its own
Puritans differed from Separatists in that
Puritans wanted to purify the Church of England, Separatists wanted to separate from it entirely
Before the late 1600s, Virginia planters generally preferred white indentured servants to enslaved Africans as a source of labor because
Indentured servants were cheaper than slaves
The perilous and frequently deadly forced journey made by enslaved Africans across the Atlantic in ships was known as the
Middle Passage.
In 1607, the Virginia Company founded Jamestown on the east coast of what is today the United States, with the intention of
Quickly extracting natural resources from the Americas and making its investors wealthy
The Massachusetts Bay Colony practiced
Strict adherence to the Puritan faith
The father of Pocahontas, Powhatan was
The leader of Algonquian Indians living in Tidewater Virginia
John Smith was most famous as
The leader of the Jamestown colony who helped it survive by prescribing strict discipline
The members of the Virginia House of Burgesses were mainly
Wealthy white planters, demonstrating the sharp social stratification in colonial Virginia
The 1739 Stono Rebellion in South Carolina demonstrates that
Whites responded to threats of revolt by passing ever-stricter slave codes
Massachusetts Bay governor John Winthrop envisioned the colony as
a "city upon a hill," providing an example of reformed Protestantism to the world
The Great Awakening was a period of
increased religious fervor
Historians believed that Bacon's Rebellion
led planters to transition from using indentured servants to using enslaved Africans as a source of labor
The triangular trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas sent
raw materials to Europe, finished goods to Africa, and slaves to the Americas
All of the following were principles of the Enlightenment except
romanticism.