Vocabulary
Groups that pooled their money together to fund new colonies
join-stock company
What is a Charter Colony?
Written permission from the king with rules regarding location and administration
Cecilius Calvert
Maryland
What settlement was established by the Pilgrims?
Plymouth
What were the two main cash crops of Virginia?
rice and tobacco
Dutch who received large land grants
patroon
What is a royal colony?
the king had direct control
James Oglethorpe
Georgia
Which colony was founded as a refuge for Catholics?
Maryland
Why was the colony of Georgia established?
To serve as a buffer between the English and Spanish colonies, to be a debtor colony.
Guaranteed religious freedom in Maryland
Acts of Toleration
What is a proprietary colony?
given to groups or individuals who could govern themselves
Roger Williams
Rhode Island
Who were the first settlers of Pennsylvania?
Quakers
What was King James I referring to when he wrote about the "Noxious Weed"
tobacco
Agreement the Pilgrims made for establishing the first self-government of the new world
Mayflower Compact
New Amsterdam
John Winthrop
Massachusetts
What group settled New York?
Dutch
Who was Blackbeard and where was he eventually killed?
Pirate
North Carolina
An economic system in which mother countries took raw material from colonies to make finished goods and used the colonies as markets to resell in order to increase the wealth of the mother country
mercantilism
Name the 13 Colonies
Very many nice men cam running down north street not needing police guards.
Thomas Hooker
Connecticut
How were the Dutch and English different in their reasons for colonization?
What was the main church in many of the Southern Colonies?