Section 1
An English settlement founded in 1607 in Virginia
What is Jamestown?
A Patuxet Indian who had lived in Europe and spoke English
What is Squanto?
Wheat, barley, and oats
What is staple crops?
An act passed in 1689 that reduced the powers of the English monarch and gave Parliament more power
What is English Bill of Rights?
Required colonists to pay for an official stamp when buying paper items
What is Stamp Act of 1765?
Made limiting religious rights of Christians a crime in Maryland
What is The Toleration Act of 1649?
(Daily Double) Puritan who claimed to receive their religious views directly from God
What is Anne Hutchinson?
The Society of Friends
What is Quakers?
(Daily Double) A movement during the 1700s that focused on the use of reason and logic to improve society
What is Enlightenment?
Boston leader who believed Parliament could not tax the colonists without their permission
What is Samuel Adams?
Economies of the Southern colonies
What is based on farming?
The pilgrims
What is became immigrants?
Started a colony named Pennsylvania.
What is William Penn?
Indirect trade between the American colonies and Britain
What is triangular trade?
An act allowing a British company to sell cheap tea directly to the colonists
What is Tea Act?
They were married in 1614
What is John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
Male passengers agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good
What is Mayflower Compact?
Director general who took control of New Amsterdam beginning in 1647
What is Peter Stuyvesant?
Native American leader who led a rebellion in the Ohio Valley in 1763
What is Pontiac?
(Daily Double) Laws passed to punish colonists for the Boston Tea Party
What is Intolerable Acts?
Wrote their experiences as a slave
What is Olaudah Equiano?
A Protestant group that wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England
What is Puritans?
Created New York and New Jersey from former Dutch territory
What is the English?
Important leader of the Great Awakening
What is Jonathan Edwards?
Method of communication between towns and colonies about British laws
What is Committees of Correspondence?