Our English Heritage
The English Colonies
Traditions of English Colonial Government
The Colonizers
Slaves and Natives
100
This document was significant to securing the rights of the nobles
What is the Magna Carta?
100
This set of colonies formed Rhode Island, Connecticut and New Hampshire
What is the New England colonies?
100
This is a group of people ruled by a parent country
What is colony?
100
Many English people came to the colonies because they considered themselves this kind of religious person
What is a religious dissenter or puritan?
100
Slaves often resisted by doing this
What is running away?
200
This cultural movement in Europe was important to the contribution of many modern day American values
What is the Enlightenment?
200
This was a set of colonies located in states such as New York and New Jersey and was mainly made up of royal and proprietary colonies
What is the Middle Colonies?
200
This is when investors get ownership in the colonial and a share of profits
What is a joint stock company?
200
Many travelers came to North America because this kind of opportunity
What is economic opportunity?
200
By 1860 there were about this many people enslaved in the United States
What is 4 million?
300
This bill was an important contribution to civil rights within England and was a historical basis of the first ten amendments.
What is English Bill of Rights?
300
This is a kind of colony where the owner controls all
What is a proprietary colony
300
This grants land rights and authority for colonial government
What is a charter?
300
This group of people were brought to America by force
What are slaves, prisoners or criminals?
300
Settlers claimed the Native Americans failed to do this with the land
What is properly using the land?
400
This legislative body grew out of nobles advising monarchy and
What is Parliament?
400
A colony ruled by the king
What is a royal colony?
400
An agreement between a group of people
What is a compact?
400
Indian tribes would often fight with each other over this
What is the best hunting ground?
500
This method of learning is through experimentation
What is empiricism?
500
How many colonies where there in total?
What is 13?
500
This law making body was elected by white adult males
What is a legislature?
500
The English and Native people initially had this kind of relationship
What is mutually beneficial?
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