Important Men
King Charles II owed this man's father money and therefore granted him the charter for Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
This religious group came to Pennsylvania with William Penn.
Who are the Quakers?
Settlers followed wilderness trails and these to move west.
What are rivers?
This was the system used to teach the trades in the colony.
What is apprenticeship?
This was the first institution of higher learning in the colonies.
What is Harvard?
White male property owners were called this in the colonies.
What is freeholders?
Converted Native Americans lived in these.
What is praying towns?
This group of people gained their passage to America by working 4-7 years for a master.
What are indentured servants?
Whaling was a common occupation in these colonies.
What are the New England colonies?
The Puritans started using slaves after this war.
What is the Pequot War?
This English preacher was instrumental in the Great Awakening.
Who is George Whitefield?
This group was most active in being missionaries to the Native Americans.
Who are the Puritans?
This event almost ended Jamestown Colony.
What is the starving time?
This crop was the main food crop of the Southern Colonies.
What is corn?
This group, along with the English and Scots-Irish, were the largest ethnic groups that migrated to the colonies.
What is the Germans?
This man was the founder of the Moravians.
Who is John Huss?
Native Americans believed in this belief system that spirits live in objects in nature as well as natural events.
What is animism?
This is the reason the Dutch wanted to colonize America.
What is for profit?
These farmers grew only enough crops to sustain their own families.
What are subsistence farmers?
This was the first body of representative government in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
This movement teaches God created the universe and then left it to run its own course.
What is deism?
These are three of the reasons English colonists came to America.
What are profit, land ownership, employment, political freedom, religious freedom, and adventure.
These are three of the roles the colonial family filled.
What are church, hospital, school, business place, and social activity center.
This was the first written law of religious freedom in the colonies.
What is The Act of Toleration?