Early Colonies
New England
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Misc.
100
This was the 1st permanent English colony
What is Jamestown?
100
This group of religious settlers was the first to colonize Massachusetts?
Who are the Pilgrims?
100
The 41 men aboard the Mayflower signed a document setting up a form of self-government and agreeing to obey laws passed by the majority.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
This Maryland law was the first to promote religious freedom in the colonies.
What is the The Toleration Act of 1649?
100
Religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s promoting Christian ideas.
What is The Great Awakening?
200
George Calvert established this colony for Catholics
What is Maryland?
200
The original name of New York before it was surrendered to the English.
What is New Amsterdam
200
These items best describe the economy of the Middle Colonies
What are staple crops, like wheat, oats, grains. (ie. The Breadbasket)?
200
This was the main motivation for Nathaniel Bacon’s Rebellion.
What is opposed trade with the natives?
200
This is a system of obtaining wealth and power through trade.
What is mercantilism?
300
James Oglethorpe outlawed slavery, favored small land grants, and established this colony.
What is Virginia?
300
William Bradford sailed with this group on the Mayflower.
Who are the Pilgrims?
300
This group, also known as the Society of Friends, was one of the most popular religious groups in New Jersey and Pennsylvania
Who are the Quakers?
300
This colony was divided into two separate areas due to difficulty in managing.
What is Carolina – North Carolina and South Carolina?
300
A movement that began in Europe that promoted logic and reason as the best ways to improve society.
What is The Enlightenment?
400
The Powhatans helped the Jamestown settlers by doing this.
What is teaching farming/survival skills?
400
This Puritan leader helped to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony
Who is John Winthrop?
400
This Quaker leader limited his own power, established an elected council, and promoted religious freedom.
Who is William Penn?
400
These are laws that denied enslaved Africans most of their rights.
What are slave codes?
400
This document that reduced the powers of the King of England.
What is The English Bill of Rights?
500
This group of religious settlers was the first to colonize Massachusetts?
Who are the Pilgrims?
500
Thomas Hooker’s Fundamental Orders of Connecticut had this effect in that colony.
It made the colony more democratic.
500
A worker who receives a free passage to the colonies in exchange for several years of unpaid work
What is an indentured servant?
500
The brutal, overcrowded trip of slaves from Africa to America is known as this.
What is the Middle Passage?
500
Colonists were angered by these trade laws that required English ships be used to transport goods and trade cotton/sugar with only England.
What are The Navigaton Acts?
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