A Puritan minister who led settlers out of Massachusetts Bay.
100
What is the common?
An open field where cattle grazed.
100
What were town meetings?
Meeting where settlers talked and voted on lots of issues.
100
What was the Sabbath?
A holy day of rest where they weren't allowed to play games or tell jokes.
200
What did William Penn found?
Pennsylvania
200
Who was Metacom?
The chief that led Indians to attack villages in New England.
200
What were cash crops?
Crops that were sold for money.
200
What was toleration?
The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.
200
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
The governor of New Netherlands.
300
What were the Quakers?
The most despised religious group in England.
300
What was the General Court?
An assembly that had elected representatives.
300
Who were the Pennsylvania dutch?
German-speaking Protestants.
300
What was the Great Migration?
A journey from England to Massachusetts.
300
What was the royal colony?
The colony that was under control of the English crown.
400
Why were the Middle Colonies called the Breadbasket Colonies?
Because the Middle Colonies exported so much grain that they became known as that.
400
What is the Great Wagon Road?
An old Iroquois trail that became known as that.
400
Who did the Indians teach to hunt things and get food from other things?
The settlers.
400
Who developed a lightweight rifle to use in the forests?
The German gunsmiths.
400
Who was Roger Williams?
A Puritan who challenged the leaders of Massachusetts Bay.
500
How did New Netherlands become New York?
King Charles II gave New Netherlands to his brother Duke of York and renamed it New York in his honor.
500
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
A plan of government that was written by the settlers.
500
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
A devout Puritan who expressed her feelings about the pastor's sermons and who fled to Rhode Island.
500
What was the backcountry?
The area of land along the eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains that German and Scotch-Irish settlers traveled into.
500
Why were the Puritans different from the Pilgrims?
Because unlike the Pilgrims, the Puritans didn't want to separate entirely from the Church of England. But they wanted to reform the church by coming up with simpler ways of worship.