England and America
This religious development strengthened English national identity and increased rivalry with Catholic Spain.
Protestantism
This cash crop became the economic foundation of the Virginia colony and increased the demand for labor.
Tobacco
This religious group established Maryland as a colony where settlers could practice their faith and initially promoted religious toleration.
Catholics
This religious group founded Massachusetts Bay and believed that society should be organized around strict Protestant values and a covenant with God.
Puritans
This colony was founded by Roger Williams after he was banished from Massachusetts for rejecting Puritanical ideas. The colony became a safe haven for religious dissenters.
Rhode Island
English attempts to colonize this nearby island gave England experience with settlement, land acquisition, and controlling foreign populations.
Ireland
These workers agreed to labor for several years in exchange for transportation to the American colonies.
Indetured Servants
In colonial Maryland, women had limited legal and economic independence, reflecting this broader English social system in which married women were legally subordinate to their husbands.
Coverture
This agreement established a system of self-government among the Pilgrims?
Mayflower Compact
Lacking a marketable staple like sugar or tobacco, New Englanders turned to what in order to form the backbone of their economy?
Timber/Fishing
England's growing population of poor and landless people led some leaders to see overseas colonies as a potential solution to this domestic problem.
Poverty/social instability
What did the English believe was the basis for liberty?
Owning land
In what year did were enslaved Africans first brought to Virginia and sold into servitude, marking an important early development in the growth of African slavery in English North America.
1619
This conflict in 1637–1638 resulted from tensions between English settlers and Native Americans in southern New England and demonstrated the growing power of English colonists.
The Pequot War
What event in England exacerbated preexisting conflict between Catholic and Protestant settlers and anti-proprietary sentiment?
The English Civil War
In 1607, this English settlement became the first permanent English settlement in North America, fulfilling earlier English efforts to establish a colony in the region.
Jamestown
What representative governing body, established in Virginia in 1619, reflected the colony's growing political independence?
House of Burgesses
Maryland was part of this colonial region, which included Virginia and was known for its tobacco-based economy.
The Chesapeake Region
This event resulted in thousands of English settlers coming to New England during the 1630s, largely because of religious and political tensions in England.
The Great Migration
1649 law that granted free exercise of religion to all Christian denominations in colonial Maryland.
Act Concerning Religion (or Maryland Toleration Act)
This 1585 English colony, established by Sir Walter Raleigh on an island off the coast of present-day North Carolina, disappeared and became known as the “Lost Colony.”
Roanoke
What Native American group fought several wars against English settlers in colonial Virginia?
Powhatan
This legal right allowed a widow to receive a portion of her deceased husband’s property, providing women with some financial protection in colonial America.
Dower Rights
This concept describes the Puritan belief that people were divided into the “elect,” who were chosen for salvation, and others who were not.
Predestination
Who led England from 1649 until 1658 and undertook an aggressive policy of colonial expansion and the promotion of Protestantism until the monarch was restored?
Oliver Cromwell