Tidbits
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Potpourri
100

This is the earliest European city in the New World

What is St. Augustine

100
Separatists who journeyed to the colonies during the 1600s for a religious purpose.
What is Pilgrims
100
People who refuse to use force, or fight in wars.
What is pacifists
100
A blue flowering plant, used to dye textiles.
What is indigo
100

As a leader, he established religious tolerance and trade agreements with the native population

Who is William Penn?

200

The movement ultimately responsible for religious tolerance

What is the Great Awakening

200
The acceptance of different beliefs.
What is tolerance
200

A colony in which the owner owned all the land and controlled the government.

What is proprietary colony

200
A person or country that owes money.
What is debtor
200

The effect of this was that labor slowly switched from using indentured servants to slavery

What is Bacon's Rebellion?

300

His sermons were described as fiery and theatrical

Who is Jonathon Edwards

300

First established the colony New Amsterdam

Who are the Dutch

300
Wealthy landowners who acquired riverfront estates and ruled them like kings.
What is patroons
300
A formal, written plan of government.
What is constitution
300
An early English colony whose citizens completely disappeared from the face of the Earth.
What is Roanoke Island
400

Although Disney says differently, she most likely did not go willingly with the colonists

Who is Pocahontas?

400
To treat someone harshly because of that person’s beliefs or practices.
What is persecute
400

Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.

Indentured servant

400

An event characterized by mob thinking, similar to McCarthyism of the 1950s.

What are the Salem Witch Trials?

400
A land grant of 50 acres given to each new settler of Virginia.
What is headright
500

This was the year that the first slave auction took place in the New World

What is 1619?

500
A formal document, written in 1620, that provided law & order to the Plymouth colony.
What is Mayflower Compact
500
Protestant group of dissenters called the Society of Friends, who were tolerant of the views of others and believed that every individual had an “inner light” that would guide them to salvation.
What is Quakers
500

Laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.

What is indentured servant

500
The 27-year-old soldier who helped the Jamestown colonists survive by forcing them to work, exploring the area, & getting corn from the local natives.
What is Captain John Smith
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