Category 1
What ideas/principles were taken from the colonies and later applied to the Constitution?
What was representative democracy, freedom of religion, and the right to vote.
What were the 2 main churches within Christianity that were practiced in Europe that caused some to seek religious freedom.
What was the Catholic Church and Protestant (specifically the Church of England).
Thomas Hooker, Anne Hutchinson, and Roger Williams left Massachusetts Bay Colony that influenced what new idea?
What was religious tolerance and freedom.
This group of Colonies depend on fishing, shipping, and trade due to its location near coasts and access to forests
What was the New England colonies.
This group of Colonies produced cash crops such as wheat, barley, and rye.
What were the Middle Colonies.
This colony believed that all people were equal.
What was Pennsylvania.
This document allowed for religious freedom for Catholics in Maryland.
What was the Act of Toleration in 1649.
This system allowed for settlers to farm or run businesses as they pleased in the New Jersey proprietary colony.
What was the free enterprise system or free-market economy.
This individual established the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania and formed a general assembly that was governed by a constitution.
Who was William Penn.
This individual from Spain believed that Africans were less likely to suffer from hard labor than Native Americans.
Who was Bartolome de Las Casas.
This expanded the right to vote to all men who owned property in the colony of Connecticut.
What was the Fundamental Order of Connecticut.
This group of Colonies established the first public schools in order to primarily teach their children how to read the Bible.
Who was the New England Colonies.
This area in the Southern Colonies was located by the coast and rivers and contained many plantations were slaves worked.
What was the Tidewater area.
This was one of the first legislative organizations that limited government and had representative government in the Virginia Colony.
What was the House of Burgesses.
This colony was established to provide debtors a place to live.
What was Georgia.
This religious event brought together the colonists and encouraged self-rule.
What was the Great Awakening.
This individual greatly influenced the U.S. constitution and Declaration of Independence. He also believed that individuals had natural rights including life, liberty, and property.
Who was John Locke.
This system allowed for landowners to gain more land when they paid for more passages of people. This led to the increase of slavery and plantations.
What was the Headright system.
The English Bill of Rights was signed by William and Mary. How did it limit the government?
It limited the government by: 1) citizens had a right to trial by jury, 2) taxes approved by Parliament, 3) Army had to be approved by Parliament
New England to W. Africa: gunpowder, rum, cloth
W. Africa to W. Indies: slaves
W. Indies to New England: molasses and sugar
This type of Spanish settlement was established to spread Christianity and European beliefs and languages.
What was a mission.
This was one of the first documents that set a plan to create a government that would elect a council to make laws for the good of the people.
What was the Mayflower Compact.
This first permanent colony was located close to the coast but inland along a river in order for it to not be spotted easily by the Spanish.
What was Jamestown.
This colony was under the direct control of the English crown.
What was a royal colony.
An English colony in which the king gave land to individuals in exchange for a yearly payment.
What is a proprietary colony.