APUSH Midterm Period 1-4

Spanish government's policy to give Native Americans to colonists to provide labor and to be converted to Christianity. Part of a broader Spanish effort to subdue native tribes.

• Columbian Exchange

• Mission System

• Encomienda System

• Asiento System

An economic system based on government regulation that controlled colonial commerce and manufacturing for the enrichment of the mother country.

• Encomienda System

• Mercantilism

• Mission System

• Asiento System

Native American confederacy located in the Northeastern Woodlands. They lived in permanent settlements consisting of multi-family longhouses built of wood and bark. They used three-sister agriculture and hunting to support their community.

• Pueblo

• Chinook

• Algonquin

• Iroquois

In the Colonial Era, developments such as the New England town meetings and the establishment of the Virginia House of Burgesses represented

• colonial attempts to build a strong national government

• efforts by the British to strengthen their control over the colonies

• early social reform movements

• steps in the growth of representative democracy

The British system of mercantilism was opposed by many American colonists because it

• encouraged colonial agriculture

• placed restrictions on trading

• placed limits on immigration

• discouraged the export of raw materials to England

The Mayflower Compact of 1620 is considered an important step in the development of democracy in America because it

• expressed the importance of self-government

• established freedom of religion

• created the first colonial judicial system

• granted all males the right to vote

The British benefited from their mercantilist relationship with the American colonies primarily by

• supporting the growth of colonial industries

• prohibiting colonists from fishing and fur trading

• taking large amounts of gold and silver from the southern colonies

• buying raw materials from the colonies and selling them as finished products

One reason traditions of self-government developed in the American colonies before the French and Indian War was that the British

• sent effective leaders to govern colonial settlements

• required colonial representation in Parliament

• practiced salutary neglect in the colonies

• maintained a strong military presence in the colonies

 

Indian groups in this region developed a nomadic lifestyle based mainly on hunting the bison.

• Southwest

• Eastern Woodlands

• Great Plains

• Pacific Northwest

This was a form of labor utilized by colonists in which Europeans would pay for passage to the New World through contract labor.

• Indentured Servitude

• Headright System

• Primogeniture

• Encomienda System