Name that colony
This colony was the first successful colony set up in North America for England.
Jamestown
This group wanted to completely break away from the Church of England and have their own church instead.
The Separatists (Pilgrims)
People who refused to fight were known as
Pacificists
This colonial founder was a Quaker and set up his colony to reflect his beliefs. He also designed the city of Philadelphia, PA.
William Penn
This was the most profitable crop grown in Jamestown originally and led to its survival at first.
Tobacco
This colony was set up by its owner for debtors and poor people to get a new start.
Georgia
The name given to religious settlements that were set up by the Spanish to convert Native Americans to Christianity, specifically Roman Catholicism.
Missions
This crop was grown in South Carolina and was referred to as "Blue Gold" because of its value in dyeing clothing
Indigo
This group of colonists could not afford passage to the colonies and sold themselves for the cost of the trip. In exchange they worked for 5 to 8 years. These people were known as
Indentured servants
The southern English colonies replaced indentured servants with who because they required what type of labor force from Africa to be profitable?
enslaved (slave)
This colony passed a law called the Act of Toleration to protect Catholics within the colony
Maryland
This group wanted to make changes or reform the Church of England.
Puritans
French lords had workers that farmed their land for them and paid them an annual rent. These workers were called
Tenant farms
He led a revolt in his colony by attacking the near by Native American groups and the colony's capital, Jamestown, burning it to the ground.
Nathaniel Bacon
Name the 3 types of colonies set up in America by the English
Charter, Proprietary, and Royal colonies
England lead an attack on the main settlement of the Dutch colony in North America. What was the Dutch name for the city that was the center of their trade empire.
New Amsterdam
What is the other name that the Church of England is known by?
The Anglican Church
This was the name for the movement of 15,000 Puritans to the Mass Bay colony from England
The Great Migration
Anne Hutchinson challenged the Puritan leadership in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In charge of her prosecution was the Puritan church leader...
John Winthrop
What was the most important clue left at Roanoke Island that was found?
The word "Croatoan" carved into a tree or wooden fence post at the abandoned settlement
The King of England agreed to allow groups of merchants to set up colonies in North America. The agreement and type of colony was known as a
Charter colony
What group was responsible for setting up the Massachusetts Bay Colony
The Puritans
The first written constitution in the Americas was known as the
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
A military man, he came to Jamestown and forced the colonists to work hard and befriend the local Native American tribes
Captain John Smith
Pilgrims on board the Mayflower referred to the other group of English passengers on board the ship by this "unfriendly" term
strangers
Name the 2 English colonies that:
1. respected Native Americans living in the area of their colony and paid the natives for their land
AND
2. Name the owners/leaders of the colony
Pennsylvania and Rhode Island
William Penn and Roger Williams
Name the 3 primary Quaker beliefs
1. All people are equal
2. Don't believe in fighting (Pacificists)
3. Did not believe you needed clergy to have a relationship with God (inner light)
William Penn made sure all the people living in his colony had a say in their government. He wrote a document giving colonists the right to elect their representatives? What was that document?
The Charter of Liberties
He was the leader of 2 unsuccessful expeditions to set up an English colony on Roanoke Island, losing his daughter and granddaughter in the process when the colony disappeared
John White
What 3 things did the Mayflower Compact state the settlers in Plymouth would do since they were starting a new colony without the King's permission?
1. Oath of loyalty to England
2. To set up a gov't or civil body politic
3. To obey the laws passed in the colony