New England Colonies
This ship carried the Pilgrims to America in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
New Amsterdam received this name after the English takeover in 1664.
What is New York?
This profitable crop helped Virginia’s economy grow and increased demand for land and labor.
What is tobacco?
These workers served a set number of years, often in exchange for passage to America.
Who were indentured servants?
This religious group, also called the Society of Friends, strongly influenced Pennsylvania.
Who were the Quakers?
Separatists wanted to leave the Church of England, while this group wanted to reform it from within.
Who were the Puritans?
This Quaker founded Pennsylvania and promoted religious toleration.
Who was William Penn?
This colony was founded partly as a refuge for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
These two factors helped the colonial population grow rapidly.
What are natural increase within families and immigration?
This religious revival emphasized personal conversion and holy living.
What was the Great Awakening?
This agreement required Plymouth settlers to obey the colony’s laws and elected leadership.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Middle Colonies earned this nickname because they produced large amounts of grain.
What are the bread colonies?
These two valuable cash crops became important in South Carolina.
What are rice and indigo?
This route helped settlers move into the southern backcountry.
What is the Great Wagon Road?
This traveling evangelist preached to large crowds across colonial boundaries.
Who was George Whitefield?
This founder of Providence supported greater separation of church and state.
Who was Roger Williams?
The Duke of York gave the territory that became New Jersey to these two men.
Who were Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley?
This system granted land for paying a person’s passage to Virginia.
What is the headright system?
Explain the main difference between indentured servitude and colonial slavery.
Indentured servitude had a limited term; slavery became lifelong and hereditary.
This minister preached the famous sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
Explain how New England’s geography encouraged fishing, shipbuilding, and trade.
Rocky soil and a short growing season limited large-scale farming, encouraging maritime industries and commerce.
Name two reasons Pennsylvania attracted settlers from many backgrounds.
Religious toleration, political liberty, economic opportunity, or fertile farmland. Accept any two.
Give the two major reasons Georgia was founded.
To provide a military buffer against Spanish Florida and a fresh start for struggling people.
Explain why frontier settlement often caused conflict with Native Americans.
Settlers expanded onto Native lands, increasing competition over land, resources, trade, and security.
Name and explain two major results of the Great Awakening.
Accept two: church growth, religious divisions, expanded religious training, weakened support for established churches, greater connections among colonies, or emphasis on spiritual equality and individual religious judgment.