Founding Colonies
This colony was founded in 1607 mainly by investors hoping to turn a profit.
What is Virginia?
This 1619 Virginia body was the first elected representative assembly in English America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This term describes a crop grown mainly to sell for profit rather than to feed one's own family.
What is a cash crop?
This forced Atlantic Ocean voyage carried enslaved Africans to the Americas under horrific conditions.
What is the Middle Passage?
This Massachusetts Bay leader called on colonists to build "a city upon a hill."
Who is John Winthrop?
This colony was founded by Puritans seeking to build a religious community.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
This 1639 document, influenced by Thomas Hooker, set up a government based on the consent of the governed in Connecticut.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This resource, gathered by trappers along river routes, drove the French economy in North America and needed few settlers.
(What are beaver furs / the fur trade?
As this group finished their contracts and began demanding land, planters turned more often to enslaved Africans instead.
Who are indentured servants?
This woman was banished from Massachusetts Bay for challenging Puritan leaders and their theology.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This colony was founded by William Penn as a haven for Quakers and other persecuted groups.
What is Pennsylvania?
This document, signed before the Pilgrims came ashore, was an agreement to keep order in unexpected territory.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This region of English colonies was known for fishing, shipbuilding, and trade due to its rocky soil, cold winters, and deep harbors.
What are the New England colonies?
Unlike indentured servitude, this form of labor was lifelong and passed down to the children of enslaved women.
What is slavery?
This colonial leader famously declared "he who shall not work shall not eat" to get Jamestown settlers working.
Who is John Smith?
This colony was founded in 1732 partly to serve as a buffer against Spanish Florida and give debtors a fresh start.
What is Georgia?
This medieval English document established that even the king had to follow the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
These two cash crops thrived in the warm, wet lowcountry of South Carolina.
What are rice and indigo?
This trade network linked the colonies, Africa, and the West Indies, exchanging goods, enslaved people, and raw materials.
What is the triangular trade?
This religious movement encouraged personal faith and questioning of traditional church authority.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This colony started as a Dutch settlement before England seized it in 1664 and renamed it.
What is New York/New Netherland?
This 1689 English document limited the monarch's power and protected the rights of English subjects, including colonists.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Name the factor that best explains why New England, Middle, and Southern colonial economies differed from one another.
What is climate, soil, and natural resources?
Name one long-term effect of European colonization on Native American peoples.
What is loss of land and population decline from disease/conflict?
Explain the key difference between the Pilgrims and the Puritans.
Pilgrims broke away entirely from the Church of England; Puritans wanted to reform it from within.