He learned tobacco cultivation from Native Americans and married Pocohontas, princess of the Powhatan.
Who is John Rolfe?
100
The Pilgrims were unhappy in this European country because their children were learning another nation's culture.
What is Holland?
100
William Penn created the colony at Pennsylvania to provide a safe place for this group.
What are Quakers?
100
Established the idea of the consent of the governed in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
Mass hysteria, accusations, and unfair trials accompanied this event.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
200
One important trait of the plantation economy.
What is a need for intensive labor?
200
New England colonists practiced democracy at this location.
What are town meetings?
200
The largest city in colonial America.
What is Philadelphia?
200
The first written constitution in the colonies.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
200
The persecution of this group in England by James I and Charles I led to a population explosion in the American colonies between 1620 and 1630.
What is the Great Migration?
300
A person whose passage to America was paid for seven years in exchange for work.
What is an indentured servant?
300
Roger Williams, dissented from Puritan teachings, and was expelled for his beliefs establishing this colony.
What is Rhode Island?
300
The middle colonies were often referred to by this nickname.
What is "breadbasket"?
300
The first colonial assembly in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
300
This sermon spell binder promised his flock hellfire and damnation if they did not repent their sins.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
400
Basic crops of the first plantations.
What are rice, indigo, and tobacco?
400
The New England colonies were only able to practice subsistence farming for this reason.
What is the rocky soil of the region?
400
Ben Franklin, the most well known resident of Philadelphia, was an example of American mobility, in the social class structure of the colony.
What is moving from poverty to wealth through hard work and knowledge?
400
This law established the principle of freedom of religion in Maryland.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
400
Historians claim that these traits were developed in the Great Awakening and helped lead to the American Revolution.
What is individualized thinking and questioning authority?
500
This system encouraged immigration to the colonies by providing every person in a household, including slaves, 50 acres of land per person.
What is the headright system?
500
John Winthrop, first governor of Massachusetts, believed that the colonial experiment in New England would be an example. He coined this phrase to describe this idea.
What is "shining city on a hill"?
500
Middle colony farmers did not achieve individual wealth even though there was great demand for their crops.
What is lack of machinery limited production of wheat?
500
The British policy allowing the colonies to develop without interference.
What is "salutary neglect"?
500
The trade route that established the continuation of and growth of slavery in the colonies.