Southern Colonies 1
Jamestown
What was the name of the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Most of the men who came to Jamestown were adventurers with no experience in farming or useful skills such as carpentry.
Why settlers lost their lives?
A protestant group that wanted to purify or reform the Anglican Church.
Who are the Puritans?
The Dutch
Who founded the New Netherland?
A movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
People who signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America.
What are indentured servants?
Because the Virginia Company could not protect its colonists, the English crown canceled the company's charter in 1624.
Why the Virginia Company’s charter was canceled?
A separatist group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The society of friends (a Christian movement) made up one of the largest religious groups in New Jersey.
Who were the Quakers?
A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s and changed colonial religion and impacted social and political life.
What is the Great Awakening?
Colonists who paid their own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land. The colonist could earn another 50 acres for every additional person brought from England.
What is the headright system?
They were laws to control slaves such as slaves could not hold meetings or own weapons.
What were the slave codes?
Plymouth Rock in present-day Massachusetts
Where the Pilgrims landed in America?
William Penn petitioned King Charles II to create a new colony that would provide a safe home for Quakers.
What is the Pennsylvania colony?
The law that prohibited colonists from trading specific items such as cotton and sugar to any other country other than England.
What is the Navigation Act of 1660?
Cecilius Calvert started this colony to help Catholics escape religious persecution in England.
Who is Maryland?
James Oglethorpe created this colony to be a place where debtors who had been jailed for their unpaid debts in England could make a new start.
What is the Georgia colony?
The harsh climate and rocky soil meant that few New England farms could grow cash crops.
Why trading, fishing, and shipbuilding became the main source of the economy?
In 1712, a group of enslaved Africans led in armed revolt to escape from slavery.
What is the New York Slave Revolt?
Had ultimate power over all colonies
Who is the English monarch?
The law created that made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
A large workforce was needed for agriculture so rather than used indentured servants colonists used enslaved Africans.
Why slavery started in the colonies?
A group of girls accused people of casting spells on them. The community formed a special court to judge the witchcraft cases that led to 19 people being put to death.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
William Penn wanted to provide a safe home for Quakers.
Why the Pennsylvania colony was created?
They wanted to earn money from trade.
Why England wanted to control the colonies?