Roanoke & Jamestown
New England Colonies
Southern Colonies
Middle Colonies
Economy, Government & Society
100

100 – First English child born in America

100 – Virginia Dare

100

100 – Ship the Pilgrims sailed on

100 – Mayflower

100

100 – Founder of Georgia

100 – James Oglethorpe

100

100 – Founder of Pennsylvania

100 – William Penn

100

100 – English document signed in 1215

100 – Magna Carta

200

200 – Colony that mysteriously disappeared

200 – Roanoke

200

200 – Document signed for self-government

200 – Mayflower Compact

200

200 – Crop grown in South Carolina paddies

200 – Rice

200

200 – Colony formerly called New Netherland

100 – William Penn

200

200 – Three-part trade route including Middle Passage

200 – Triangular trade

300

300 – Leader who enforced “work or starve”

300 – John Smith

300

300 – Leader of Massachusetts Bay Colony

300 – John Winthrop

300

300 – Rebellion led by Nathaniel Bacon

300 – Bacon’s Rebellion

300

300 – Religious group that founded Pennsylvania

300 – Quakers

300

300 – Religious revival of the 1730s

300 – Great Awakening

400

400 – Cash crop that made Virginia wealthy

400 – Tobacco

400

400 – First written constitution in America

400 – Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

400

400 – Law protecting Catholics in Maryland

400 – Act of Toleration

400

400 – Major port city in Pennsylvania

400 – Philadelphia

400

400 – Area near fireplace in colonial homes

400 – Hearth

500

500 – First elected legislature in America

500 – House of Burgesses


500

500 – Native American who helped Pilgrims farm

500 – Squanto


500

500 – Labor system used on Southern plantations

500 – Slavery / Enslaved labor


500

500 – Boundary line between Maryland & Pennsylvania

500 – Mason-Dixon Line


500

500 – System giving 50 acres to settlers

500 – Headright system

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