Important Colonies
This is a colony established in 1607 and considered the first permanent British colony in North America.
What is the Jamestown colony (1607)?
A conflict between Great Britain and France from 1754 to 1763 in North America, with Native American tribes on both sides, which resulted in significant territorial gains for the British.
What is the French and Indian War (1754-63)?
In 1620, English Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower signed a document that established a form of self-government and a social contract among themselves, laying the foundation for democratic principles in the American colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact (1620)?
An English explorer and soldier who played a key role in the early colonization of Virginia, establishing trade with Native American tribes and helping the Jamestown colony to survive.
Who is John Smith?
A labor system that emerged in the southern colonies of North America in which cash crops such as tobacco, rice, and cotton were cultivated on large estates using enslaved Africans and indentured servants.
What is the Plantation System?
The Pilgrims established a settlement in present-day Massachusetts in 1620, which became one of the earliest English colonies in North America.
What is the Plymouth colony (1620)?
In 1680, Native American tribes in present-day New Mexico successfully revolted against Spanish colonizers, driving them out of the region for over a decade.
What is the Pueblo Revolt (1680)?
In 1619, the Jamestown colony established the first representative legislative assembly in the British colonies in North America, allowing settlers to elect representatives and participate in governance.
What is the House of Burgesses (1619)?
A Native American of the Patuxet tribe who played a crucial role in the survival of the Pilgrims at Plymouth Colony by teaching them agricultural techniques and serving as a translator and mediator with other tribes.
Who is Squanto?
A philosophical and intellectual movement in Europe and the American colonies during the 17th and 18th centuries that emphasized reason, science, and individualism over tradition and superstition.
What is the Enlightenment?
In 1630, John Winthrop and a group of Puritan settlers founded a colony in present-day New England, which became a major center of trade, commerce, and religious activity.
What is the Massachusetts Bay colony? (1630)?
In 1739, a group of enslaved Africans in South Carolina staged a rebellion against plantation owners, leading to the deaths of several whites and resulting in tighter restrictions on enslaved people.
What is the Stono Rebellion (1739)?
In 1649, the Maryland colonial assembly passed a law that granted religious freedom to Christians, providing legal protection to Catholic colonists in a predominantly Protestant colony.
What is the Act of Toleration (1649)?
An English Puritan leader who became the governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony, leading the colony through a period of growth and development and promoting the idea of a "City upon a Hill."
Who is John Winthrop?
An economic system practiced by European powers during the colonial era that sought to accumulate wealth by exporting more goods than importing and establishing colonies as sources of raw materials and markets for manufactured goods.
What is Mercantilism?
The Dutch West India Company established a colony in 1624 in present-day New York City, which became an important trade hub for fur, tobacco, and other goods.
What is New Netherlands (1624)?
A legal framework developed in 1661 in the British colonies, which established the rights of white landowners to control and exploit enslaved Africans, denying basic human rights and treating them as property.
What was the Barbados Slave Code (1661)?
In 1686, King James II merged several New England colonies into one, leading to resentment and opposition among colonists who had already developed their own governments and were thriving under them.
What is the Dominion of New England (1686)?
An English settler in Virginia who is credited with introducing a successful strain of tobacco to the colony and marrying the Native American Pocahontas, which helped to improve relations between the English and Powhatan tribes.
Who is John Rolfe?
A religious revival that swept through the American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s, marked by emotional, experiential worship and a focus on personal salvation, challenging the authority of established churches and laying the foundation for new denominations.
What is the First Great Awakening?
In 1732, James Oglethorpe founded a colony in present-day southeastern United States, which served as a refuge for debtors and a buffer against Spanish expansion.
What is the Georgia colony (1713)?
A conflict from 1675 to 1676 between Native American tribes in southern New England and English colonists, caused by tensions over land and resources. It resulted in significant losses on both sides and the eventual subjugation of Native Americans in the region.
What is the King Phillip's War (1675-1676)?
In 1639, a document in Connecticut that established a framework for self-government based on popular sovereignty and the election of magistrates, serving as a precursor to democratic principles in the American colonies.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)?
An English philanthropist and founder of the Georgia Colony in the early 18th century, which served as a refuge for debtors and a defensive buffer against Spanish Florida.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
A system used in the American colonies to encourage the recruitment of labor and the settlement of land by granting land to individuals who paid for the transportation of new settlers to the colonies.
What is the Headright System?