Key Concepts
1. Differences in imperial goals, cultures, and the North American environments that different empires confronted
led Europeans to develop diverse patterns of colonization.
2. European colonization efforts in North America stimulated intercultural contact and intensified conflict between
the various groups of colonizers and native peoples.
3. The increasing political, economic, and cultural exchanges within the “Atlantic World” had a profound impact on
the development of colonial societies in North America.
Key Terms
1. Differences in imperial goals, cultures, and the North American environments that different empires confronted
led Europeans to develop diverse patterns of colonization.
2. European colonization efforts in North America stimulated intercultural contact and intensified conflict between
the various groups of colonizers and native peoples.
3. The increasing political, economic, and cultural exchanges within the “Atlantic World” had a profound impact on
the development of colonial societies in North America.
Key Terms
- mercantilism
- Jamestown
- Massachusetts Bay Company
- Black slaves in the 1600s
- Bacon's Rebellion
- The Enlightenment
- The First Great Awakening
- Albany Plan
- Proclamation of 1763
- Stamp Act
- Declaratory Act
- The Intolerable Acts and the Coercive Acts
- Common Sense
- Articles of Confederation
- Land Ordinance of 1785, Northwest Ordinance of 1787
- Shay's Rebellion
- Federalist Party
- Anti-Federalist Party
- Jay's Treaty
- Alien and Sedition Acts
- Kentucky and Virginia Resolutions
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