Early Colonies
The colony of Jamestown was founded in this year.
1607
These two groups came to New England for religious freedom.
Who are the Puritans and Pilgrims?
The Middle Colonies were also called this nickname.
What is the The Breadbasket?
The first permanent English settlement was here.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
This was the first form of self-government in the colonies (1620).
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A charter was what type of document?
What is a contract to establish a colony?
The Pilgrims signed this agreement in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
William Penn founded this colony for Quakers and religious tolerance
What is Pennsylvania?
Georgia was founded as a colony for this group of people.
Who are debtors?
This philosopher argued for “natural rights” of life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This crop, introduced by John Rolfe, saved Jamestown’s economy.
What is tobacco?
Roger Williams founded this colony after disagreements with the Puritans about the separation of Church and State.
What is Rhode Island?
This harbor city in the Middle Colonies became a major trading center. Today it's one of the largest cities in America.
What is New York City
Maryland was founded as a safe haven for this religious group.
Who are the Catholics?
The Enlightenment encouraged colonists to use these three things.
What are knowledge, reason, and science?
This colony, founded by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1585, mysteriously disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
Thomas Hooker wrote this, the first written constitution in the colonies.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
These Pennsylvanians were the first anti-slavery group in the 13 Colonies.
Who are the Quakers?
The acronym T.R.I.C. stands for these Southern cash crops.
What are Tobacco, Rice, Indigo, Cotton?
Name two reasons colonists developed representative government.
What are distance from England, salutary neglect, self-government, English traditions, Enlightenment ideas?
An Economic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials to increase the wealth and maintain a favorable balance of trade for the “mother” country
What is Mercantilism?
Describe New England’s geography and economy.
What is rocky soil, harsh winters, subsistence farming, fishing, shipbuilding, and trade?
Thomas Hooker wrote this document, the first written Constitution in the 13 Colonies.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
What system of trade brought enslaved Africans to the Southern colonies?
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Triangular Trade)?
The Great Awakening encouraged colonists to think about these two things beyond religion.
What are independence and representative government?