Spanish Colonies
The area the Spanish colonized is now called this.
Florida
The people in this first American settlement, planned only to search for gold and not to farm
Jamestown
Largest city in North America
Philadelphia
This tried to stop colonial smuggling.
Sugar Act
Main cash crop of Virginia
Tobacco
This Spanish explorer conquered the Aztecs.
Hernando Cortes
This state was the first American colony.
Virginia
This law restricted colonial trade. As a result smuggling of this became common.
Molasses
This person founded Philadelphia, the "City of Brotherly Love,"
William Penn
People abandoned Puritan and Anglican religions and joined new ones due to this movement.
The Great Awakening
In 1493, this famous explorer founded Isabela, the first permanent Spanish settlement on Hispaniola during his second trip.
Columbus
This colony did not survive and no one knows for sure why.
Roanoke
Who founded Providence as a place where people could worship as they chose, not as the government dictated?
Roger Williams
The middle colonies were called the "bread basket colonies" because of this.
They farmed cash crops like wheat and grains.
Georgia was created partially as a buffer from what?
The Spanish in Florida and the Native Americans in the area.
Florida was named by this Spanish explorer.
Juan Ponce de Leon
What were the Pilgrims known as who escaped persecution in England and founded the Plymouth Colony?
Separatists
Name 3 of the 4 New England Colonies.
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut.
People started seeing "reason" due to this movement
The Enlightenment
What colony's creation was funded by British lords hoping to make a profit.
Carolina
Precious metals (Gold, silver)
Why did the first colonists struggle so much when they first arrived?
Looking for gold and not working, unskilled, not used to the environment, not enough supplies, etc...
This state passed the first public school law.
Massachusetts
This is why King James II was unpopular in England and why many people came to America.
He was Catholic
He founded Georgia.
James Oglethorpe