Southern Colonies
Who was John Smith?
Who was a colonist and leader of Jamestown?
Who were the Pilgrims?
Who were a Separatist group that cut all ties with the Church of England and left England to escape persecution?
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
Who is director general who led the New Netherland colony beginning in 1647?
What was salutary neglect?
What was a policy in which Britain interfered very little in colonial affairs?
What were slave codes?
What were laws to control slaves?
Who were indentured servants?
Who were colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys?
Who were the Puritans?
Who were a Protestant group that wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England?
Who was William Penn?
Who was a Quaker leader who founded the Pennsylvania colony?
What was triangular trade?
What was a system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa?
What was a town meeting?
What was assembly in which colonists decided issues and made laws?
What was Bacon’s Rebellion?
What was an uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against high taxes burning Jamestown to the ground?
Who are immigrants?
Who are people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country?
Who were Quakers (Society of Friends)?
Who were a religious group that believed in the equality of men and women before God; supported nonviolence and religious tolerance?
What was the Great Awakening?
What was religious movement in the colonies during the 1730's and 1740's?
What is the name given to the voyage of slaves from Africa to America?
What is the middle passage?
What was the Toleration Act of 1649?
What was an act that made limiting the religious rights of Christians a crime?
What was the Mayflower Compact?
What is a legal contract male passengers on the Mayflower signed agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good?
What are staple crops?
What are crops that are always needed, such as wheat, barley, and oats?
What was the Enlightenment?
What was a movement during the 1700's that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society?
How was the treatment of enslaved Africans different under English rule than it was under the rule of the Dutch?
What is Enslaved Africans lived in harsh conditions under English rule?
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
Who was a former slave who wrote down his experiences?
Who was John Winthrop?
Who was the leader of Puritans who left England for Massachusetts seeking religious freedom?
What was the first town on Manhattan Island?
What was New Amsterdam?
Who was John Locke?
Who was a philosopher who thought that people had natural rights?
Who was Pocahontas?
Who was a a Powhatan Indian who married Jamestown colonist John Rolfe?