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Founded by the Spanish in 1565, this Florida settlement became the oldest continuously occupied European-founded city in what is now the United States.
What is St. Augustine?
Founded in 1607, this became England's first permanent settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
These English religious Separatists sailed aboard the Mayflower and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This Puritan dissenter argued that government should not control an individual's religious beliefs and was banished from Massachusetts.
Who is Roger Williams?
After the Puritan period in England ended, this monarch returned to the English throne in 1660, beginning the period known as the Restoration.
Who is Charles II?
Known as the “Father of New France,” this explorer established Quebec in 1608 along the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
This joint-stock company received a charter from King James I and financed the settlement of Virginia.
What is the Virginia Company?
Before leaving their ship, the Pilgrims signed this agreement establishing the principle that government should operate through the consent of the governed.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
After leaving Massachusetts, Roger Williams helped establish this colony famous for greater religious toleration.
What is Rhode Island?
Charles II rewarded supporters by granting them large amounts of colonial territory governed under this type of colony, in which individuals received governing rights from the king.
What is a proprietary colony?
Sailing for the Dutch in 1609, this English explorer entered a major North American river that now bears his name.
Who is Henry Hudson?
When Jamestown teetered near collapse, this forceful leader demanded that settlers work rather than spend their days searching for riches.
Who is John Smith?
This longtime governor helped guide Plymouth Colony through its difficult early years and later wrote about the colony's history.
Who is William Bradford?
This outspoken religious dissenter challenged Massachusetts's Puritan leadership and was eventually expelled from the colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
In 1663, Charles II granted territory between Virginia and Spanish Florida to eight supporters, creating this colonial region.
What are the Carolinas?
French colonization depended heavily upon this profitable economic activity, which encouraged alliances and trade relationships with Native peoples.
What is the fur trade?
This crop became Virginia's economic lifeline and transformed the Chesapeake into a profitable agricultural colony.
What is tobacco?
This Puritan leader envisioned Massachusetts Bay as a model Christian society—a famous “city upon a hill.”
Who is John Winthrop?
The Calvert family established this colony partly as a refuge for English Catholics facing discrimination at home.
What is Maryland?
The original Carolina grant eventually developed into these two separate royal colonies.
What are North Carolina and South Carolina?
Spanish settlements frequently used these religious communities to convert Native Americans to Christianity while extending Spanish authority into frontier regions.
What are missions?
To encourage immigration and labor, Virginia granted settlers approximately 50 acres of land for paying the passage of another person through this system.
What is the Headright System?
Unlike the Pilgrims, these English Protestants initially hoped to reform—or “purify”—the Church of England rather than completely separate from it.
Who are the Puritans?
Passed in 1649, this Maryland law protected Christians who accepted the divinity of Jesus but did not establish complete religious freedom.
What is the Maryland Act of Toleration?
As New England entered later generations, this policy gave partial church membership to the children of baptized Puritans who had not experienced a formal religious conversion.
What is the Halfway Covenant?