Settlement
This colony was the first successful settlement in Virginia
What is Jamestown
This was a sudden outbreak of religious fervor that swept through the colonies
The Great Awakening
This conflict between an alliance of Massachusetts Bay and Plymouth colonies with American Indian allies against the Pequot Indians.
What is Pequot War
This sailor is remembered for his role in establishing the first permanent English settlement in North America at Jamestown, Virginia
Who is Captain John Smith
This is the practice of growing crops for market rather than personal use in which slaves where usually forced to do.
What is Cash Crops
This was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony. It was drafted by the Pilgrims who crossed the Atlantic aboard the Mayflower, seeking religious freedom. It was signed on November 11, 1620
What is the Mayflower Compact
This had declined by the 1730s, and people were upset about the decline in religious piety.
What is Puritanism
This uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, first rebellion in the American colonies in which discontented frontiersmen took part
What is Bacon's Rebellion
This man was credited with starting the Great Awakening
Who is George Whitfield
This three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa.
What is Triangle Trade
This first joint-stock company in the colonies founded Jamestown
What is the Virginia Company
This was a group of English Protestants who would not accept allegiance in any form to the Church of England
What is Separatists
This series of battles in New Hampshire between the colonists and the Wompanoagswas started when the Massachusetts government tried to assert court jurisdiction over the local Indians.
What is King Phillip's War
This was an American theologian and Congregational clergyman, whose sermons stirred the religious revival, called the Great Awakening
Who is Jonathan Edwards
This is a poor person obligated to a fixed term of unpaid labor, often in exchange for a benefit such as transportation, protection, or training.
What is Indentured Servants
This is an English settlement on the east coast of North America in the 17th century, in New England, centered around the present-day cities of Salem and Boston
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony
This applied to those members of the Puritan colonies who were the children of church members, but who hadn't achieved grace themselves
What is the Halfway Covenant
This war fought between France, Spain, England and France's indian allies for control of North America with the goal to control fur trade.
What is King William's War
This clergyman, one of the founders of Hartford. Called "the father of American democracy" because he said that people have a right to choose their magistrates
Who is Thomas Hooker
This part of the Triangle Trade
Africans were transported to the Americas, where they were traded for sugar and tobacco
What is the Middle Passage
This group of seven Indian tribes that controlled Virginia who allowed for the original English Settlers to survive
What is the Powhatan Confederacy
This part of the Great Awakening, Edwards gave gripping sermons about sin and the torments of Hell.
What is "Sinners in the hands of an Angry God"
This 1680 revolt against Spanish settlers in the modern-day American Southwest forced the Spanish to abandon Santa Fe.
What is the Pueblo Revolt
This man after being sold into slavery at age 11 and later gaining freedom, spoke out against slavery and published his autobiography
Who is Olaudah Equiano
This was a slave rebellion begun on Sunday, September 9, 1739, in the colony of South Carolina. It was the largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies prior to the American Revolution.
What is Stono Rebellion