1st English Settlements
What was the colony settled first by Pilgrims?
Plymouth, Massachusetts
Includes what four colonies?
MA, RI, CT, NH
Which 4 colonies are in this region?
NY, NJ, DE, PA
What 5 colonies are in this region?
VA, MD, NC, SC, GA
What is the system called for the Spanish enslavement of Native Americans in exchange for protecting them?
Encomienda System
King James IV gave the Virginia Company to establish this colony in 1607.
Jamestown
What were New England settlements and colonies based on?
Congregations
What is the climate of the Middle Colonies like?
Warm, longer growing period, rolling hills. Ideal for crops like wheat and barley.
What kind of crop is sold for money and not food? Give an example.
Cash crop; i.e. tobacco, rice, cotton, sugar, indigo
This was the daughter of Chief Powhatan who married John Rolfe and supposedly saved John Smith's life.
Pocahontas
What was the difference between English colonists and the French and Spanish?
More likely to include women
Who first settled in modern day Massachusetts?
Pilgrims (Separatists/Puritans)
Where did this migrant group came from which area led to the Middle colonies having a society with a greater cultural, ethnic, tolerance, and religious diversity
Europe
What is the type of worker is like a slave but did have limited right as well as the opportunity to eventually be considered free?
Indentured servant
Spanish enslaved Native Americans and forced them to practice Christianity and destroyed their religious structures. This led to pueblos revolting and getting rid of Spanish, who soon came back
Pueblo Revolt
What was the name of the document that would govern the Pilgrims at Plymouth?
Mayflower Compact
Why did the Puritans come to America?
Seeking religious freedom
The Dutch originally settled in New York to trade what with the American Indians?
Furs
This violent conflict was in response to encroachments made by European settlers on Native American lands. Ironically, one of the tribes fighting the Europeans was the once friendly Wampanoag tribe.
King Philip's War
The Pilgrims went to the New World for religious freedom. What Protestant sect did they belong to?
Separatists
Who could vote in the Massachusetts colony?
Male, church members
The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, created a colony to protect what religious group?
Quakers
What religious group initially settled in Maryland?
Roman Catholics or Catholics
This tribe had mixed relations with the Jamestown settlers which eventually led to two short wars, one in 1609-1614 and the other in 1622-1626.
(There are two acceptable answers, but just need one.)
Powhatans
Algonquins