Early Jamestown and Virginia
Jamestown was the ______________ permanent English settlement in North America.
first
What Powhatan Indian married the colonist John Rolfe bringing unity and peace between her people and the colonists?
Pocahontas
What was the first law supporting religious tolerance passed in the English colonies that made it a crime to limit religious rights of Christians?
Toleration Act of 1649
Maryland was founded as a new colony for what religious group?
English Catholics
Pilgrims and Puritans came to America to avoid what?
religious persecution
Daily life in Virginia was ______________________ to the colonists.
challenging
Who was the man who wrote about the brutal conditions he experienced as a slave?
Olaudah Equiano
What two early examples of documents that gave the English rights?
Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights
Which two things were important to the economies of the southern colonies?
farming and slavery
Who was a Protestant group who wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England
Puritans
Why did many colonists in Jamestown starve?
Only a few colonists knew how to grow crops for food
Who was the Patuxet Indian who had lived in Europe, spoke English, taught the Pilgrims to fertilize their soil, and helped them establish relations with the chief of the local Wampanoag Indians?
Tisquantum (Squanto)
When they reached America, the male Pilgrims from the Mayflower signed the __________. It was one of the first times colonists attempted to govern themselves by focusing on fair laws to protect the general good.
Mayflower Compact
Since the climate and land were different in New England, they had to base their economy on other types of work than were done in the southern colonies. Which one was NOT one of the main jobs in the New England colonies?
Farmer
Who attended the first Thanksgiving?
Tisquantum, Pilgrims, and 90 Wampanoag guests
Most of the work on large plantations was done by whom?
indentured servants and slaves
John Winthrop led one group of Puritans to immigrate to Massachusetts for religious freedom and to fulfill their sacred agreement with God to build what?
Christian colony
What was the purpose of the Mayflower Compact signed by the Pilgrims in 1620?
to establish a self-governed society
Which group of people worked most of the time in the Southern colonies' tobacco fields, helping to build the wealth of plantation owners?
enslaved people
What was important in Pilgrims' lives in New England?
Education
Nathanial Bacon disagreed with the leadership in Jamestown, so he led a group of former indentured servants in an uprising and attack that burned Jamestown known as what?
Bacon's Rebellion
Anne Hutchison was a Puritan woman who disagreed with religious ideas in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, so she was put on trial. What was the outcome of her trial?
She was forced to leave the colony
What two main motives brought colonists to found the colonies of Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia?
religious freedom and economic opportunities
What made farming, the same way as the southern colonies, impossible in the New England colonies?
hard climate and rocky soil
While some self-government existed in the New England colonies, and women had rights they didn’t have in England, who were the only people allowed to vote?
chosen male church members