What was the first successful English settlement in North America
What is Jamestown
They landed at Plymouth in 1620 and traveled for Religious reasons...
Who are the Pilgrims
The founder of Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn
To pay for their passage to America, these people agreed to work without pay for a certain length of time...
What is indentured servants
The last English colony to be created
What is Georgia
What was England's first attempt to settle the new world? -- "vanishing colony"
What is Roanoke
When Puritan familes left for the Americas
What is the Great Migration
Means "Society of Friends"--Penn himself was one of these
What is Quaker
Two reasons this region was suitable for growing crops such as tobacco, rice, & indigo.
What is good soil & warm climate?
Vocab word meaning religious settlements established to convert people to a certain faith....
What is a mission
Who was the experienced explorer that forced settlers to work? Jamestown survives because of his efforts...
Who is John Smith
This is the first written constitution in the Americans
What is Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New York State was orginally New Amsterdam because it was controlled by who?
What is the Dutch
The governor of Virginia that was overthrown by Bacon and his rebellion...
who is Sir William Berkeley
For a short time this improved the relationship between the colonists and the Powhatan.
What is the marriage of John Rolfe to Pocahontas
What was Jamestown's representative government called?
What is House of Burgesses
This person founded Hartford Connecticut
Who is Thomas Hooker
Name three of the four Middle Colonies...
What is New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
Name the two reasons Georgia was founded
What is a place for debtors to start fresh and to create a buffer for the other 12 colonies for spanish owned Flordia
Landless frontier settlers were denied approval for a war against Native Americans.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
Jamestown was this________, when investors buy stock in a company in hopes of a share of its future profits.
What is joint-stock company
Name three out of the four New England Colonies
What is Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island
King Charles II decided his brother, the Duke of York, should drive the Dutch from here
What is New Netherland
Established by Lord Baltimore in 1632 for Roman Catholics fleeing religious persecution in England.
What is Maryland?
Protestants who wanted to leave the Anglican church and create new churchs....
Who are the Separatists