Early Colonies
Founded in 1607, this was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This term describes legally bound laborers who worked for a period in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
The pilgrims arrived on this ship in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This “lost” colony vanished from Roanoke Island sometime after 1587.
What is the Roanoke Colony?
n the colonies, this meeting house served as both a church and a place for local government.
What is the town house (or meeting house)?
Before disembarking, the Pilgrims agreed to this early form of self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Captain John Smith claimed that this Powhatan woman saved his life.
Who is Pocahontas?
These laws, first passed in Virginia and Maryland, defined slavery by race and heritage.
What are slave codes?
This colony, founded by Puritans, aimed to be a “city upon a hill.”
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Settlers here nearly starved until they began growing the cash crop tobacco.
What is Virginia?
Wealthy landowners in the southern colonies were often called this.
What are planters?
She was banished for challenging Puritan religious authority; later she helped found Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This man established Rhode Island as a haven for religious dissent in 1636.
Who is Roger Williams
This 1739 uprising of enslaved Africans in South Carolina was the largest slave rebellion in the mainland colonies.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Conflict between colonists and Wampanoags from 1675–1676 was known as this war.
What is King Phillip’s War?