Jamestown & Plymouth
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Rocky soil, forests, and cold winters were characteristics of this colonial region.
What is New England?
This is a type of government where citizens elect officials to represent their ideas and beliefs.
What is a representative government?
This colony was founded largely because its settlers wanted religious freedom.
What is Plymouth?
This future president gained military experience during the French and Indian War.
Who is George Washington?
This crop helped Jamestown become successful and profitable.
What is tobacco?
This celebration commemorates the harvest shared by Plymouth settlers and Native Americans.
What is Thanksgiving?
This 1689 document protected individual rights in England.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This is a group of Separatist from England who believed in a strict society that closely followed the word of god.
What are the Puritans?
This is another name for the French and Indian War.
What is the Seven Years War?
These settlers founded Plymouth Colony in search of religious freedom.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Many New England colonists believed education was important so people could read this.
What is the Bible?
This document signed in 1215 limited the power of the king.
What is the Magna Carta?
This event was a series of accusations and trials involving witchcraft in Massachusetts.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
To pay for the war debts, Britain increased these in the colonies.
What are taxes?
This document established self-government for the Plymouth colonists.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This region, often referred to as the "Breadbasket" of the colonies, was known for its diversity and religious tolerance.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This English lawmaking body represented citizens and helped check the king's power.
What is Parliament?
This religious movement spread through the colonies during the 1730s and 1740s.
What was the Great Awakening?
Britain and France fought for control over this region during the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This is a struggle that both Plymouth and Jamestown shared early on in their founding.
What is starvation?
Because of poor farmland, many New England colonists earned a living through these industries.
What are fishing, shipbuilding, and trade?
Put the events in chronological order: Parliament, Magna Carta, English Bill of Rights.
What is the Magna Carta, Parliament, English Bill of Rights?
The Great Awakening encouraged colonists to do this instead of blindly following authority.
What is think for themselves?
Explain the connection between the French and Indian War and the American Revolution.
Britain's debt from the French and Indian War led to taxes on the colonies, increasing tensions and helping cause the American Revolution.