Vocabulary
This a person who moves to another country from his or her country or homeland.
What is immigrants?
The economy in the Southern colonies main was based on ____________.
What is Agriculture?
They were a member of a Puritan Separatists sect that left England in 1620 and were the first to settle in New England.
Who are the pilgrims?
He was the director general who led the New Netherland colony beginning in 1647.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
Most government decisions were made at _______________ in the New England colonies.
What are town meetings?
The policy in which Britain interfered very little in colonial affairs.
What is statutory neglect?
__________ was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This is what Roger Williams believed in.
What is separation of church and state?
The Society of Friends, who made up of one of the largest religious groups in New Jersey, was also know as...
Who are the Quakers?
A philosopher who thought that people had natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This was a movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
The _______________ were for people that pay their own way to the colonies but would get 50 acres of land and along another 50 per additional family member.
What is the headright system?
This document written by Pilgrims establishing themselves as a political society and set guidelines for self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This type of trading was very important to the economy during the 1600's.
What is Fur Trading?
This was a series of religious revivals in the American colonies and England during the 1700s.
What is the Great Awakening?
This act passed in 1689 that reduced the powers of the English monarch and gave Parliament more power.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This was the result of the Toleration Act of 1649.
What is it encouraged religious freedom and people of many faiths settled in Maryland?
who is the one that helped the pilgrims establish relations with other Indians.
What is Tisquantum or Squanto?
He was a Quaker leader who founded the Pennsylvania colony.
Who is William Penn?
This was the first college founded in the colonies.
What is Harvard?
The area of the land that The French and Indian War was being fought over.
What is Ohio River Valley? or West of the Appalachians?
This was the step taken by John Smith to save Jamestown.
What is created a system that said if you don't work, you won't eat?
Thomas Hooker wanted to leave ___________ and started a colony in ______________ with a more democratic government
What is Massachusetts, Connecticut?
Farmers grew large amounts of staple crops which were...
What are wheat, oats, and barley?
The Triangular Trade is a system in which goods and slaves were traded among the ____________, ____________, __________.
What are the America's, Britain, and Africa?