The New England Colonies
On September 16, 1620, a ship called the _____________ left England with more than 100 men, women, and children aboard.
What is the Mayflower?
Settlement founded in Virginia, named after King James I; first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Quaker who believed in dealing fairly with local American Indians, welcoming immigrants, and tolerating other religions.
Who was William Penn?
_____ was an English speaking Patuxet Indian who taught the Pilgrims to fertilize the soil with fish remains and helped them establish relations with the local Wampanoag Indians.
Who is Tisquantum? (Squanto)
Colonists who signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America.
What are indentured servants?
________________ was the daughter of the Powhatan leader who married colonist John Rolfe.
Who was Pocahontas?
A former slave who wrote about his experiences as a slave in the southern colonies.
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
A bill that made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
Colonist who questioned the teachings of Puritan ministers; forced to leave Massachusetts, later settled in Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
A Separatist group of English Protestants that formed Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The leader of the Jamestown settlement who forced the colonists to work harder for survival.
Who was John Smith?
____________ was an uprising against the Jamestown governor's policy toward American Indians.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Director general who took control of New Amsterdam beginning in 1647. He was forced to surrender New Amsterdam to the English in 1664.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
_______ made important contributions to the economy running farms and businesses, clothing and grocery stores, bakeries, and drugstores.
Who are women?
Document written by the Pilgrims setting guidelines for self-government and fair laws to protect the general good.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
They wanted to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church and thought that bishops and priests had too much power over church members.
Who are the Puritans?
_______ were laws passed to control slaves in the colonies.
What are Slave Codes?
The Society of Friends, made up one of the largest religious groups in New Jersey; supported religious tolerance.
Who are the Quakers?
The_______ was an assembly in which colonists decided political issues and made laws.
What is the town meeting?
A good climate and fertile land in the middle colonies meant the colonists could grow a large quantity of _____ such as wheat, barley, and oats.
What are staple crops?
______ was the leader of the Puritan colonists in Massachusetts.
Who was John Winthrop?
The system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa.
What is Triangular Trade?
_____ was important to the economy of the middle colonies.
What is trade?
One of England’s main reasons for founding and controlling its American colonies was ____.
What is to earn money from trade?
Enlightenment Philosophers such as _______thought that people had natural rights such as equality and liberty.
Who is John Locke?