People
The English soldier who saved Jamestown from complete collapse by imposing martial (military) law.
John Smith
John Rolfe, wife and daughter of the Powhatan chief.
Pocahontas
The document signed by the Pilgrims that guaranteed all citizens would vote on the laws and all citizens would follow the laws made by the colony.
Mayflower Compact
What was the name of the Pilgrims (famous) ship?
Mayflower
What was the name of the first representative assembly in America? Hint: it was made up of landowners in Virginia.
House of Burgesses
The English farmer who planted tobacco and turned Jamestown into a thriving colony.
John Rolfe
King James I (Jamestown)
People who worked as butlers, maids, cooks, and chauffeurs, in exchange for room/board and passage to Virginia.
Indentured servants
Name one of the problems Jamestown had when it was first settled.
Built near a swamp (drinking, cooking, bathing water), disease, wealthy colonists refused to work
What were some of the strict rules imposed on the Georgia colony until the settlers revolted?
Settlers were workers, not colonists; no card playing/gambling, no drinking, no dancing, no slaves.
The founder of the Pennsylvania colony, this Quaker collected a debt (in the form of land) from King Charles II.
William Penn
The wealthy Virginia farmer who raised an army to wipe out Native Americans and later burned Jamestown in protest of Virginia's governor, William Berkeley.
Every person who paid their way to Virginia was granted 50 acres of land.
Headright system
What was the name of the Pilgrims colony?
Plymouth
Name one reason why the Carolina colony was split in two.
Population centers were hundreds of miles apart.
North Carolina consisted of poor, smaller farms, while South Carolina had large, wealthy farms.
The first governor of the Pilgrims colony of Plymouth, he later founded the colony of Massachusetts.
John Winthrop
This Massachusetts colonist thought it was too restrictive of religion so he moved south and founded the Providence (Rhode Island) colony with several families.
Roger Williams
The original Dutch name of the colony of New York.
What was the name of the Maryland law that guaranteed religious freedom for all Christians?
Maryland Toleration Act
Why was Delaware able to split from the Pennsylvania colony?
Pennsylvania granted the three lower counties the right to create a separate assembly.
Founder of the Maryland colony, he was a Catholic who hope to make Maryland a safe haven for Catholics, but later it became a home for all Christians.
George Calvert
Founder of the Georgia colony, he planned to run it like a business until the settlers revolted.
James Oglethorpe
People invested their money in a colony, hoping it would turn a profit.
What are some differences between indentured servants and slaves?
Servants: contracted work, must be provided food/shelter, paid a stiped when contract ends, provided with food, clothing and a weapon when contract ends, legal rights in court.
Slaves: serve for life, never live in master's house, children are slaves, no legal rights in court
Why was England jealous of the New Netherland colony?
It was the center of the wealthy fur trade industry.