Colonial Regions
This region is known as the 'Breadbasket' because of its grain production.
What are the Middle Colonies?
He founded Pennsylvania as a 'Holy Experiment' for Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
The first agreement for self-government in the colonies, signed in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A religious revival in the 1730s-40s that led to new churches.
What is the Great Awakening?
Theory that a nation’s strength comes from its gold and trade with colonies.
What is Mercantilism?
Rocky soil led this region to focus on shipbuilding, fishing, and timber.
What are the New England Colonies?
She was banished from Massachusetts for challenging Puritan authority.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
These laws restricted colonial trade to English ships and ports
What are the Navigation Acts?
This top social class included wealthy merchants and plantation owners.
Who is the Gentry?
The leg of the trade route that brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This region's economy relied on cash crops like tobacco and rice grown on plantations
What are the Southern Colonies?
This Wampanoag leader led a massive 1675 conflict against New England settlers
Who is Metacom (King Philip)?
This was the first written constitution in the American colonies.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
In New England, these were held to decide local issues and laws.
What are Town Meetings?
A crop grown primarily to be sold for profit, such as tobacco or indigo
What is a cash crop?
This colony was founded as a haven for Catholics by Lord Baltimore.
What is Maryland?
This journalist’s trial established the precedent for freedom of the press.
Who is John Peter Zenger?
This Enlightenment philosopher argued that all people have natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This unique language mixed English and African dialects in the South.
What is Gullah?
Farming that produces just enough food for the farmer's family with little left over.
What is subsistence farming?
This colony was founded for debtors and to serve as a buffer against Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
He was a Great Awakening minister famous for 'Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This Virginia assembly was the first representative government in the colonies
What is the House of Burgesses?
Education was highly valued here so that children could read the Bible
Where is New England?
These were laws passed to control the lives of enslaved people and prevent revolt
What are Slave Codes?