vocabulary
Who founded the colonies?
Important facts
Important People/events
100
A religious group who separated from the church and then came to America to practice religious freedoms. They believe in the covenant of grace, or in other words, the "elect". They believe that god had already chosen what people where going to receive salvation.They had very strict rules and teachings.
What is a Puritan?
100
Lord Baltimore
What is the founder of Maryland?
100
The carolinas
What is the colony that got split into two in 1744?
100
New York/NewAmsterdam
What is the colony captured by four English warships without firing a single shot?
200
An agreement of which the servant makes an agreement or contract to serve and give labor for a set amount of years (usually five) once they' have completed their term of time the are given money and or land.
What is an indentured servant?
200
James Olgelthorpe
What is the name of the founder of Georgia?
200
Georgia
What is the colony that was started as a safe haven for debtors?
200
Pennsylvania
What is the colony that used the frame of government?
300
The middle passage was a three leg voyage for African slaves and trading. It starts in Africa where the people are taken from their homes and brought to a cargo ship. The ship then goes and lands in Europe where they trade slaves for cargo such as iron, cloth, brandy, firearms, and gunpowder. The surviving slaves are brought to America and then traded for cash crops such as sugar and tobacco.
What is middle passage?
300
The Swedish settlers
What is the founder of Delaware?
300
1607 Jamestown Virginia
What is the first successful English colony?
300
An event where five girls in the Massachusetts Bay colony, in a town called Salem, believed they were bewitched. Two of the girls, Abigail and Betty were asking their slave Tituba questions about Barbados. She told them stories of demons and spells. These girls believed they had been bewitched. They started uncontrollably laughing, screaming, rolling on the ground, making animal noises and mimicking each other. They were brought to court and the people who were convicted for witch craft by the girls were put on trial. 20 people died and over 100 people were put in jail.
What is the Salem Witch trials?
400
The 'elect is a puritan belief in predestination, or other words; that god had already chosen the people who will receive salvation in heaven.
What is the "elect"?
400
The lord proprietors AKA the group of eight nobles.
What is the name of the founder of the Carolinas?
400
New York/ New Amsterdam
What is the land that the Dutch bought from the Natives for $24 in tools and other goods?
400
Anne Hutchinson was a women who lived in the Massachusetts Bay colony. She believed that if you live a good and holy life that you could have a sense if you were in a state of grace.She believed that you could know that if you were good that you could determine your own salvation.
Who is Anne Hutchinson, what did she believe?
500
A system of farming that provides all or almost all the good required by the farm family usually without any significant surplus for sale.
What is subsistence farming?
500
Lord John Berkley and Sir George Carteret.
What is the founder of New jersey?
500
Peter Stuyvesant
What is the name of the colonial governor of New Amsterdam/ New Netherlands?
500
Roger Williams was a baptist man who founded Rhode Island. He was put on trial in 1634 in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Roger was put on trial for heresy and sedition. Then, He was banished from the colony. He created the first baptist church, he believed that government and religion should be two separate things. He also treated the Natives fairly and paid them for their land. He learned their language and culture.
Who is Roger Williams? What did he believe?
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