Southern colonies
Britain's first, and very unsuccessful colony in North America
Roanoke Island "The Lost Colony"
The name of the boat that the Pilgrims came to Plymouth, Massachusetts in
The Mayflower
The period of religious revival in the British colonies in the 18th century
The First Great Awakening
The cold, deadly winter of 1609-1610 at Jamestown in which more than half the colonists died
"The Starving Time"
Poor Europeans who chose to serve colonists for several years to get free passage to America
Indentured servants
True or False: The northern colonies were more religious and family-oriented than the southern colonies
True!
Protestant
What was the "cash crop" first planted at Jamestown that the southern colonies became dependent upon?
Tobacco
How did slaves resist their enslavement?
Running away, fighting back, breaking tools, working slowly, creating a new culture
New Amsterdam became known as what after English ships entered and took control?
New York
The early feminist that argued for women's education
Mary Wollstonecraft
The rebellion in 1676, one hundred years before the American Revolution, in which poor colonists revolted and burned down Jamestown
Bacon's Rebellion
Which British colonies had slavery?
All of them
What were the Puritans' goals?
To purify the Church of England, and to create a "city on a hill". They wanted to be a model for England.
The two early colonizing countries in North America that were friendly and traded with Native Americans
The French and the Dutch (France and the Netherlands)