Colonies 1
First English Settlement in America
What is Jamestown?
Protest groups wanting to purify the Anglican Church
Who are the Puritans?
Another name for the group is the Society of Friends
Who are the Quakers?
An Act that reduced the powers of the
English monarchs
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Political meetings where people make decisions on local issues
What are town meetings?
Daughter of Powhatan leader
Who is Pocahontas?
An important leader in The Great Awakening
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
The Indian chief who opposed Britain
Who is Pontiac?
These people signed contracts to work 4 to 7 years for those who would pay their journey to America
What are indentured servants?
A religious movement that swept through the colonies r40m 1730 to 1740
What is the Great Awakening?
Helped Found Portsmouth, later Rhode Island
Who is Anne Hutchison?
A separatist group escaping persecution
Who are the Pilgrims?
The time that hit the Jamestown colonists in the winter with disease and famine.
What is The Starving Time?
Most of the Southern colonies passed these to control the slaves
What are slave codes?
The movement that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society
What is Enlightenment?
Leader of the Puritans in Massachusetts
Who is John Winthrop?
This man forced the settlers to work hard
Who is John Smith?
An uprising against Jamestown leading to its burning
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
People who leave the country of their birth to live in another country are called this
What are immigrants?
The first attempt at self-government in the English Colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
He provided a safe home for Quakers in Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
The Indian who gave the Pilgrims help
Who is Squanto?
Lord Baltimore, presented a bill that made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
Crops like wheat, barley, and oats that are in constant need
What are staple crops?
A treacherous voyage on the Atlantic Ocean that could last up to three months and was the middle leg of the Triangular trade
What is Middle Passage?