Jamestown and Plymouth
Also known as separatists, these people wanted to completely separate from the Church of England.
What is a Pilgrim?
A person who agreed to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time.
What was an Indentured Servant?
This group wanted a place to practice their religious beliefs and founded the Massachusetts Bay colony. They wanted to "purify" the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
This was a group that settled in the Middle Colonies and believed that all people were equal. They refused to fight wars.
What were the Quakers?
This is a proprietary colony established as a refuge for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
Someone whose views are different from most other people.
What is a dissenter?
Roger Williams started this colony after he was banished from Massachusetts. He wanted religious freedom and a separation of church and state (government).
What is Rhode Island?
These crops grew well in the Middle Colonies and were exported. They gave these colonies the nickname the "breadbasket" colonies. (Name two)
What are wheat, corn, and rye, and oats?
He founded Georgia to help debtors pay back their debts.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
In this document, the signers agreed to make and obey fair laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Slaves, sugar cane, and other foreign goods were exchanged via what form of trade?
What is triangular trade?
These were exports of the New England colonies. (Name two)
What is lumber, dried fish, whale oils, furs, and grain, ships?
This colony was originally settled by the Dutch and was named New Netherland.
What is New York?
This colony is often referred to as the "Lost Colony".
What is Roanoke?
What is banished?
These two leaders started settlements that joined to become the Rhode Island Colony.
Who were Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
A Quaker who helped found the colony of Pennsylvania. He was member of the "Society of Friends".
Who was William Penn?
The treatment of human beings as property, deprived of personal rights
What is a slavery?
To encourage people to settle in the "new land", a system was created in which individuals were given huge tracts of land. They then rented parts of their land to other settlers.
What is a Patroon system?
This was the real name of King Phillip, the leader of the Wampanoag tribe.
Who was Metacomet?
This colony had a very diverse population. Initially settled by Sweden, it later fell under the control of the Netherlands and then England. At one time it was part of New York and then Pennsylvania.
What is Delaware?
This was the first legislative assembly in the North American colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?