Vocab
What is Jamestown?
The first permanent English settlement in North America
Who established the colony of Pennsylvania?
William Penn
What was the first New England colony to be founded?
New Hampshire
William Penn wished to found a larger colony that_____?
Would provide a safe home for Quakers.
What southern colony was the last colony to be founded?
Georgia
Who were Quakers?
The Society of Friends
Who was Pocahontas's father and an , an Ottawa chief who had fought for France, tried to resist British settlement west of the Appalachians.
Pontiac
What was the time period when the New England colonies were founded?
1620-1640
How many indentured servants came to the middle colonial?
135,000
What was the time period when the Southern colonies were founded?
1630-1740
To reduce tensions, Lord Baltimore presented a bill to the colonial assembly that became known as what?
Toleration Act of 1649
Who led the Puritans colonists looking for religious freedom?
John Winthrop
Name the 4 New England colonies
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island
Name the 4 Middle Colonies
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware
Name the 5 Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
What was the English Bill of Rights?
This act reduced the powers of the English monarch.
Who was John Locke?
Philosopher that thought that people had natural rights such as equality and liberty.
On September 16, 1620, a ship called the________ left England with more than 100 men, women, and children aboard
Mayflower
Quakers made up one of the largest religious groups in what colony?
New Jersey
The economies of the southern colonies depended on_______.
Agriculture
Director-general_________ led the New Netherlands colony beginning in 1647.
Peter Stuyvesant
Who was a former slave that talked about his experiences of being a slave?
What he said about his experience:
“Tortures, murder, and every other imaginable barbarity . . . are practiced upon the poor slaves with impunity [no punishment]. I hope the slave-trade will be abolished.”
Olaudah Equiano
Between 1629 and 1640 many thousands of English men, women, and children left England. More then_____ of these people moved to English colonies in New England and the Caribbean.
40,000
What year did the Duke of York make Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley proprietors/founders of New Jersey.
1664
In ____ Charles issued the charter to Calvert’s son, Cecilius, who took over the planning of the colony.
1632