Early Settlements & Leaders
This first permanent English Colony was founded in Virginia in 1607.
What is Jamestown
Established in Virginia in 1619, it was the first representative legislative assembly in the North American Colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
He was banished from Massachusetts in 1636 for advocating religious tolerance and founded Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
John Rolfe introduced this profitable cash crop to Jamestown, transforming Virginia into a plantation economy.
What is tobacco?
The 3 legged transatlantic trade system connected Europe, West Africa and the American Colonies.
What is Triangular Trade?
To restore discipline during early hardships in Jamestown, Captain John Smith enforced this strict rule.
What is "he that will not work, shall not eat"?
Signed by Pilgrims in 1620, this social contract established an early agreement for self-government and majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This woman was banished from Massachusetts Bay for holding religious meetings in her home and fled to Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The Middle Colonies earned this nickname because fertile soil and waterfall mills produced abundant wheat and corn.
What are the "Breadbasket" Colonies?
This brutal sea voyage forcibly transported captured Africans across the Atlantic into colonial slavery.
What is the Middle Passage?
This Pilgrim leader was elected governor of Plymouth Colony 30 times and guided settlers through brutal winters.
Who is William Bradford?
Written in 1639 under Minister Thomas Hooker, it is the first written constitution in North America.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
In 1632, Lord Baltimore established Maryland as a safe haven for members of this persecuted English religious group.
Who are Catholics?
This South Carolina woman developed successful cultivation methods for indigo, creating a major blue dye export.
Who is Eliza Pinckney?
Founded in 1732 by James Oglethorpe, Georgia served as a haven for debtors and a military buffer against this Spanish territory.
What is Spanish Florida?
Disease and extreme hunger during the winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown reduced the population to 60 survivors, known by this name.
What was The Starving Time?
This unofficial British policy left American colonies largely self-governing due to vast transatlantic distance.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Passed in 1649, this Maryland law guaranteed freedom of worship for all Christian settlers, influencing religious liberty.
What is the Maryland Toleration Act?
This British economic policy required colonies to export raw materials solely to enrich the Mother Country.
What is Mercantilism?
Surveyed in 1767 between Pennsylvania and Maryland, this line marked the cultural boundary between the North and South.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
Her marriage to colonist John Rolfe in 1614 created a temporary period of peace between English settlers and the Powhatan nation.
Who was Pocahontas?
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut established that government authority must come from this key democratic principle.
What is the "Consent of the Governed"?
Unlike Virginia's single young gentlemen, settlers in Plymouth and Massachusetts arrived in these social units to build communities.
What are families?
Glaciated rocky soil and cold climate forced New England to rely on maritime industries rather than cash crops, including these three.
What are lumber/shipbuilding, fishing and whaling?
Wampanoag native who spoke English and taught Plymouth Pilgrims how to fertilize soil with fish and plant corn.
Who is Squanto?