New England Colonies
Who lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Puritans
Which group went to Pennsylvania with William Penn?
Quakers
What kind of climate did the Southern Colonies have?
Warm/humid
This event took place on March 5, 1770, where British soldiers allegedly fired into a crowd of colonists.
Boston Massacre
Rice, Indigo & Tobacco were important agricultural products of which colonial region?
Southern
These people founded Plymouth Colony and were involved in the First Thanksgiving.
Pilgrims/Separatists
Which colony was established as a "holy experiment" by William Penn?
Pennsylvania
Who is the one time leader of Jamestown settlement who told the people: "He who will not work shall not eat."
John Smith
A political group of colonists that fought against British taxation
This person brought tobacco to Jamestown and married Pocahontas.
John Rolfe
What is the name of the document that was written as a social contract for self-government by Pilgrims?
Mayflower Compact
The Middle Colonies was known as the ______________ of America.
Breadbasket
Who established the Georgia colony?
James Oglethorpe
The colonists refused buy products from the British, this is called a...
Boycott
Economic policy where the mother country profits from its colonies raw materials.
Mercantilism
Who established the Rhode Island colony?
Roger Williams
Which two rivers in the Middle Colonies allowed for easy trade access?
Delaware and Hudson Rivers
This event involved tension between the poor farming class and the elite planter class.
Bacon's Rebellion
Name 2 items the Townshend Acts taxed
Paper, lead, tea, iron, glass
Prohibited British colonists from settling on the land west of the Appalachian Mountains
Proclamation Line of 1763
What was the name of the document that was considered the first written Constitution in America?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
The Middle Colonies had what type of government?
Representative government
What is name of the first legislative assembly in the colonies?
House of Burgesses
What acts were put in place as a result of the Boston Tea Party?
System in which English settlers could bring over their indentured servants in exchange for land in the colony which they could work on.
Headright System