EARLY SETTLEMENTS
This 1607 settlement became the first permanent English colony in North America
What is Jamestown?
This cash crop saved the Jamestown colony and became Virginia's main export
What is tobacco?
This Native American woman who was forced to helped the Jamestown settlers survive their first winter
Who is Pocahontas?
This 1620 document established self-government in Plymouth Colony
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1675-1676 war between Native Americans and New England colonists devastated both sides
What is King Philip's War?
These religious separatists arrived on the Mayflower in 1620
Who are the Pilgrims?
Colonial children learned their letters from this wooden paddle-shaped learning tool
What is a hornbook?
This Pennsylvania founder established a "Holy Experiment" of religious tolerance
Who is William Penn?
These elected colonial assemblies made local laws and approved taxes
What are colonial legislatures?
This series of wars between Britain and France lasted from 1689 to 1763
What are the French and Indian Wars?
This colony, founded by Roger Williams in 1636, offered religious freedom to all settlers
What is Rhode Island?
This occupation included tasks like spinning, weaving, and candlemaking in colonial homes
What is a housewife?
This female minister was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony for challenging Puritan authority
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This 1691 document combined Plymouth Colony with Massachusetts Bay Colony
What is the Massachusetts Charter?
This 1692 hysteria led to 20 executions in Salem, Massachusetts
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Founded in 1733, this last of the original 13 colonies served as a buffer between British and Spanish territories
What is Georgia?
This colonial apprenticeship system typically lasted 7 years and taught young people a trade
What is indentured servitude?
This colonial printer established the first subscription library in America
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This type of colony was directly controlled by the British crown
What is a royal colony?
This 1739 uprising of enslaved people in South Carolina was one of the largest in colonial history
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This 1632 charter established Maryland as a haven for English Catholics
What is the Maryland Toleration Act?
This system of capturing and forcing people to work on plantations that was predominately used in the South was called?
Slavery
This group of rich white men were elected to represent the people of Virginia and make their laws.
The House of Burgesses
This set of laws that established the government of the Connecticut Colony from 1639 to 1662
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
This 1676 uprising against Virginia's colonial government was led by a wealthy planter
What is Bacon's Rebellion?