Important People
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh.
What are the New England Colonies
Spain (the Spanish Armada)
A military force made of ordinary citizens
what is a militia
The colony of Virgina was founded for what purpose?
Profits (to become wealthy)
This 27-year-old Captain forced settlers in Jamestown to work to save the colony. Additionally, he built ties with the local Powhatan people.
Who is John Smith
After becoming a center of shipping and trade to and from the Americas, this Dutch colony was taken by the English based on claims that John Cabot's explorations had given them the right to the land.
What is New York (New Netherland)
At the young age of eleven years old, this Nigerian boy and his sister were taken by kidnappers and sold into slavery. His autobiography gives a striking point of view of this experience.
Who is Olaudah Equiano
Treaty of Paris of 1763
1607
Throughout the First Great Awakening, this minister would travel the thirteen colonies giving loud and expressive sermons to large groups of people in order to restore faith and religion.
This colony was set up in 1733 for debtors and poor people to make a fresh start.
What is Georgia
English colonist began smuggling goods without government permission in response to these Acts (laws) that followed the theory of mercantilism.
This movement began in Europe and spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society. It promoted freedom of thought and expression
The Enlightenment
Advocating for uniting the colonies this delegate wrote the Albany Plan of Union for a united colonial government
Benjamin Franklin
After feeling that the government should not force people to worship a certain way, this minister was forced to leave Massachusetts. Along with Anne Hutchinson he established the colony of Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams
This group of Separatists, once called Puritans, were able to get land grants from the Virgina Company. They become known as ________ because they undertook a religious journey.
Who are the Pilgrams
Dissatisfied with how the government treated westerners, this Virginian attacked Native Americans on the frontier of the colony before marching to and burning down Jamestown.
Who was Nathanial Bacon (Bacon's Rebellion)
A system by which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government
representative government
The Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Tuscarora tribes together made up this, the most powerful group of Native Americans in eastern North America
The Iroquois Confederacy
William Penn, Pennsylvania
Fertile soil, warm climate, and wet coastal lowlands encouraged the growth of cash crops and the exponential growth of slavery in this region of colonies.
What are the Southern Colonies
The rivalry between these two nations grew to full scale war when colonists began to show interest in the Ohio River Valley.
The three-part route that sent raw materials from the colonies to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa and enslaved persons from Africa to the Americas.
Triangular Trade (the middle passage)
George Washington suffered a defeat at Fort Necessity after marching to this fort built by the French when they seized the land in western Pennsylvania
Fort Duquesne (doo-KAYN)