Settlement
Colonies
Vocabulary
Founders
New World
100

Who founded Plymouth Colony?

The Pilgrims

100
What term means a willingness to allows others to practice and celebrate their own beliefs?

Religious Tolerance

100

Wickedness or a very bad way of behaving

Depravity

100

A english quaker who founded the colony of pennsylvania.

William Penn

100

Maryland was founded for religious freedoms and the Act of ___________ was passed to allow all Christians to live in this colony.

Act of Toleration
200

Why did the Pilgrims found Plymouth Colony?

Pilgrims wanted Religious freedom

200

Who founded Rhode Island Colony after banishing him for speaking out against the leaders of Massachusetts?

Roger Williams

200

A formal or solemn agreement between two parties

Convenant

200

Who originally established the colony of New York before giving it to the English?

The Dutch
200

A social reformer funded and founded the colony of Georgia with a group of Englishmen.

James Oglethorpe

300

The Pilgrims did not settle where the charter allowed them to settle in Virginia. Pilgrims realized this before going ashore. What did they do?

The created and signed the Mayflower Compact which was a civil body to abide by laws.

300

She was one of the earliest American Feminists. She challenged authority in colonial Massachusetts. She became a founder with Roger Williams of Rhode Island.

Anne Hutchinson

300

To make someone appear to be guilty of having committed a crime

Incriminate

300

The Duke of York decides to give George Carteret and Lord Berkely part of New York and they name the colony........

New Jersey

300
How did James Oglethorpe attract people to Georgia?

He wants to give debtors a second chance at living in this colony and have a fresh start.

400

Who founded and secured a charter to form the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

John Winthrop

400

Who is the founder of Connecticut colony?

Thomas Hooker

400

The act of an accused person giving witness against himself.

Self-Incriminaton

400

The middle colonies were known as the .......colonies for all its barley, wheat and rye.

Breadbasket Colonies

400

These colonies were founded by 8 nobles and split into two colonies

North and South Carolina

500

Why did the Puritans form Massachusetts Bay Colony?

They wanted to reform the church teachings and have simpler forms of worship.

500

Virginia establishes the first assembly in the new world with representatives. What were they called? 

House of Burgesses

500

The right to vote

Suffrage

500
Who founded Maryland?

Lord Baltimore

500

This stage of the Atlantic slave trade in which millions of enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas as part of the triangular slave trade

The Middle Passage
600

What cash crops did the Southern Colonies produce?

Indigo and Rice

600

What cash crop did Jamestown produce?

Tobacco

600

It is a trade system involving Britain, Africa, west indies and 13 colonies where they all traded goods and slaves for each other over Atlantic Ocean.

TransAtlantic Slave Trade

600

What colony disappeared when Walter Raleigh returned?

Roanoke 

600

What town had witch trials & falsely accused townspeople of being witches?

Salem

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