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People
People
Who did John Rolfe marry that led to peace between the colonists and the Powhatan tribe?
Pocahontas
Committees that got in touch with other towns and colonies. Its members shared ideas and information about the new British laws and ways to challenge them
Committees of Correspondence
The first permanent English settlement in North America
Jamestown
Another name for the Society of Friends
Quakers
Crops that are always needed
staple crops
A legal contract in which the Pilgrims agreed to have fair laws to protect their general good
Mayflower Compact
Founded the Pennsylvania colony
William Penn
This event occurred on March 5, 1770, where 5 colonists including Crispus Attucks, were killed by British soldiers
Boston Massacre
This is a colony that existed under the authority of a governor chosen by the king
Royal Colony
Servants who signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America
Indentured Servants
Laws used to control slaves
Slave Codes
This act reduced the powers of the English monarch
English Bill of Rights
One of the most important leaders of the Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards
Act that set duties on molasses and sugar imported by colonists
Sugar Act
What books were used to educate the children in the colonies
New England Primer
A Protestant group that wanted to reform the Anglican Church
Puritans
The terrifying and deadly journey that could last as long as three months
Middle Passage
This bill made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians
Toleration Act of 1649
Roger Williams
Act that placed duties on glass, lead, paints, paper, and tea
Townshend Acts
What different jobs did slaves have in the Middle Colonies?
skilled laborers, farm laborers, on board ships, and in the ship building industry
People who have left the country of their birth to live in another country
immigrants
Town Meeting
Act that forbade colonists from trading specific items such as sugar and cotton with any country other than England
Navigation Acts
Led the New Netherland colony
Peter Stuyvesant
Name one of the Intolerable Acts that were placed on the colonies
Boston Harbor closed
Massachusetts's charter is cancelled
Quartering Act- housing British soldiers
Quebec Act- giving Quebec a large amount of land
A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
The Great Awakening
A Separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution
Pilgrims
A system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade
Mercantilism
A law that banned British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation of 1763