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First permanent English settlement
What is Jamestown?
Founded in 1619, this was the very first democratic body created in the colonies
What is the Virginia House of Burgess?
Speech by John Winthrop that discussed how new England needed to be an example to the rest of the world
What is "City Upon a Hill"?
Inventor, politician, and writer from Pennsylvania
Who is Ben Franklin?
A majority of people in New England practiced this religion
What is Puritanism?
This country originally founded "New Amsterdam" later renamed New York
Who are the Dutch?
Puritan woman who was banished to Rhode Island
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This colony was originally established as a safe haven for Catholics
What is Maryland?
This type of colony was ruled directly by the British government
What is royal colony?
Economic system where a colony provides raw materials to a mother country, who in turn converts those raw materials into goods and sells them back to the colonists.
What is Mercantalism?
This type of colony was often owned by 1 person or group of people
What is a proprietor?
Companies that raised money to help found colonies.
What is a joint stock company?
Quaker leader who founded a proprietor colony with significant religious freedom
William Penn
This crop is credited with saving Virginia
What is tobacco?
These colonies were often characterised by having rocky shores, therefore instead of farming their main export was sailing and fishing
What is New England?
This country exploited their relationship with the Native Americans by enslaving them and converting them to Catholicism
Who are the Spanish?
This type of colony was able to make their own laws
What is a charter colony?
Laws passed that required the colonists to primarily trade with England
What are the Navigation Acts?
Religious revival in the 1730s
What is the Great Awakening?
This country primarily interacted with Native4 Americans through trade
Who is France?
Man who brought tobacco to Virginia
John Rolfe
Concept where the British more or less let Colonial Merchants do what they wanted
What is Salutary Neglect?
Program designed to entice people to settle in the colonies by giving them land
What is the Headright system?
This major religious event led to the increased competition betwen European nations to settle the New World
What is the protestant revolution?
Founded Rhode Island after being banished from New England
Who is Roger Williams?