Exploration & Europe
He discovered the Americas for Spain in 1492.
Christopher Columbus
The first permanent English colony in America (1607).
Jamestown
Pilgrims signed this agreement to govern themselves in 1620.
Mayflower Compact
Known as the “breadbasket colonies” because they grew lots of grain.
Middle Colonies
Large farm with many workers.
Plantation
Spanish conquerors were called this.
Conquistadors
Crop that saved Virginia’s economy.
Tobacco
Leader of Massachusetts Bay Colony who wanted a “City upon a Hill.”
John Winthrop
City of Brotherly Love, founded by William Penn.
Philadelphia
A crop grown to sell for profit.
Cash crop
The exchange of plants, animals, people, and diseases between Europe and the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
Colony founded as a safe place for Catholics.
Maryland
Law code in Connecticut that was the first written constitution in America.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Religious group that founded Pennsylvania and believed in equality.
Quakers
Economic theory that colonies existed to make the home country wealthy.
Mercantilism
This Spanish system forced Natives to work on farms and in mines.
Encomienda system
Founded by James Oglethorpe as a place for debtors.
Georgia
This woman was banished from Massachusetts for speaking out against leaders.
Anne Hutchinson
Dutch colony taken by the English and renamed New York.
New Netherlands
Voyage that carried enslaved Africans to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Royal governors who ruled Spanish colonies in the king’s name.
Viceroys
Cash crop introduced by Eliza Lucas Pinckney in South Carolina.
Indigo
War led by Metacom (King Philip) against the colonists in 1675
King Philip’s War
This colony separated from Pennsylvania in 1704.
Delaware
Nickname for the Middle Colonies because of grain production.
Breadbasket Colonies