Vocab
Each of the three colonial regions had different ways of life because of this.
What is geography?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Document written by the Pilgrims on their way to the new world, established equality for all citizens.
What is The Mayflower Compact?
This towns famous witch hunt became one of the most infamous and mysterious in American History.
Where is Salem?
The Pilgrims arrived to the new world on this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
The act of a larger nation claiming a previously unclaimed area of land.
What is colonization?
Arguably the most influential English philosopher to the American colonies, stated that all people deserve the right to "life, liberty, and property".
Written by Thomas Hobbes, this document expressed the importance of a strong central government.
What is The Leviathan?
The first English colonial settlement in the Americas was at this town in Virginia.
Where is Jamestown?
Giles Corey was the only victim of the Salem Witch Trials to not be hanged, he was killed in this brutal way.
What is smashed by rocks?
The theory that the richer a nation is, the more powerful it is.
What is mercantilism?
This English philosopher was known for his negative view of people and the belief that harsh government was necessary.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
After a nearly-successful slave rebellion, this colony passed laws that banned slaves from gathering, reading and writing, and earning money.
Where is South Carolina?
Where is Connecticut?
The philosophy that states if the people create their own government they are more likely to follow said government.
What is the Social Contract?
The type of slavery that was present in the colonies and eventual U.S. - stated that slaves were not people but property.
What is Chattel Slavery?
King of England who sent both the Virginia and Plymouth colonies to settle America.
Who is King James?
The first constitution of an individual colony in the U.S.
The path taken by slaves through the Atlantic from Africa to America.
What is the Middle Passage?
The three colonial regions.
What is New England, Middle, and Southern?
The policy of England toward the colonies, allowing them to create their own laws and policies.
What is salutary neglect?
French philosopher who was famous for his outward positivity and believe that government should be created for the people.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
Essay by John Locke that outlined necessary freedoms and responsibilities of government.
The most successful slave revolt in Colonial America - involved 100 slaves marching through South Carolina.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Which colony was the first to require children to attend school?
What is Massachusetts?