Colonial America

Owning of human beings as property able to be bought, sold, given, and inherited, is known as.....

• Mercantilism

• Free trade

• Chattel slavery

The Spanish Encomienda System was created to...

• Recruit Spanish sailors for trips to the Americas

• Breed animals for trade with Natives in the New World

• Enslave Natives for the use of free labor in Spanish colonies

• Establish a fur trade with French settlements along the Mississippi river

Which group of English settlers established the colony of Plymouth?

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Indentured Servants

• Chattel Slavery

plantations and cash crops

• New England Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

Labor contract in which a person agreed to work for a landowner for 4-7 years in order to receive safe passage from Europe to Colonial America.

• Traingular Trade

• Headright System

• Indentured Servitude

• Half-Way Covenant

Which economic system/idea impacted the economic development of the colonies?

• Mayflower Compact

• Mercantilism

• Communism

• Glorious Revolution

economic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials to increase the wealth and maintain a favorable balance of trade for the “mother” country

• mercantilism

• plantation

• subsistence farming

• cash crops

Which colonial region was the most culturally and religiously diverse?

• New England

• New Southern

• Middle

• Eastern

The social classes in Spanish colonies in the Americas were categories based on the _________ system.

• Feudal

• Casta

• Costa

• Hierarchy

The Pueblo Revolt is best summarized by which of the following?

• Native Americans successully rebelled against Spanish colonization

• Iroquois revolted against French colonization
• Powhatans revolted against English colonization
• Hopi resisted Spanish attempts of conversion