New England
The City Upon a Hill.
What is Boston?
Spanish explorers/conquerors in the Americas.
Who were conquistadors?
Document signed by the Pilgrims where they agreed to create laws and follow them.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
First college in the colonies.
What was Harvard?
Founder of Maryland colony.
Who was Lord Baltimore?
Kicked out of Mass Bay for preaching as a woman and her antinomian views.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
Right to vote.
What is franchise?
The other term for the Church of England.
What is the Anglican Church?
Major crop in South Carolina.
What was rice?
Colonial regions with the most religious and ethnic diversity.
What were the Middle Colonies?
Created in 1686 to bolster the colonial defense against Indians and tying the colonies closer to Britain by enforcing the hated Navigation Acts.
What was the Dominion of New England?
People who agreed to work for someone else for 4-7 years in return for passage to the colonies.
Who were indentured servants?
Term for the slave trade.
What was the triangular trade?
Major crop in North Carolina.
What was tobacco?
Led a rebellion of indentured servants in VA in 1676?
Who was Nathaniel Bacon?
Weak alliance formed in 1643 among the four colonies Puritan colonies.
What was the New England Confederation?
If you sponsored an indentured servant’s passage to America, you earned the right to 50 acres land.
What was the headright system?
Term for the voyage of slaves across the Atlantic.
What was the Middle Passage?
Founded as a colony for English debtors.
What is Georgia?
Leader of the Natives in the Jamestown area in 1607.
Who was Powhatan?
Granted partial membership to those not yet converted to the Congregational Churches.
What was the Half-Way Covenant?
Preachers scolded parishioners for their waning piety in hope to improve faith in these sermons.
What were jeremiads?
Island where slave codes were adopted.
What was Barbados?
Founded as a colony for English Catholics.
What was Maryland?
Founder of Georgia colony.
Who was James Oglethorpe?