COLONIES
This was the first successful English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
This religious group was known for practicing peace and non-violence.
Who were the Quakers?
This political system allows citizens to practice self-government.
What is a Commonwealth?
A product grown to be sold rather than consumed by the farmer is called this.
What is a cash crop?
The Pilgrims and other passengers aboard this ship created an important document before landing in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
This was the site where the Pilgrims landed in Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth?
This group came to America seeking religious freedom and eventually established the Massachusetts Bay settlement.
Who were the Puritans?
This document set up the government and rules for the Pilgrims landing in Massachusetts in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This was the name given to the trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Western Hemisphere.
What is the Triangle Trade?
This group practiced peace and non-violence and came to America seeking religious freedom.
Who were the Quakers?
This settlement was established by Puritans in 1630 near present-day Boston.
What is the Massachusetts Bay Company?
These individuals signed contracts to work for a specific period in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
This government body was founded in Virginia in 1619 and became the first elected governmental body in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This was the route that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and the American colonies.
What is the Middle Passage?
This period in the mid-1700s saw widespread Protestantism and emphasized faith and personal religious experience.
What is the Great Awakening?
This religious group fled England and Europe because of religious persecution
Who were the Pilgrims?
This religious group traveled to America after facing religious persecution in Europe.
Who were the Pilgrims?
This official document sets up a government and establishes the rules and duties of its citizens.
What is a charter?
These people worked for a specific period of time in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
This term describes a crop grown primarily to be sold for profit rather than eaten by the farmer.
What is a cash crop?
This religious group wanted to “purify” the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
This Puritan governor was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay settlement.
Who was John Winthrop?
Scientists and great thinkers were admired and their works advanced during this period in the 1700s.
What is the Enlightenment?
The name given to the trade route across the Atlantic Ocean that saw goods and slaves transported between Africa, the West Indies, the American colonies, England, and Europe.
What is the Triangle Trade?
Written by Pilgrims and other English passengers aboard the Mayflower before landing in 1620, this document established a form of self-government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?