Vocabulary
A person who agrees to work for someone for a certain amount of time in exchange for passage to America.
What is an indentured servant?
He helped Jamestown survive by forcing settlers to work and build relationships with Native Americans.
Who is John Smith?
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
In 1619, this representative assembly met in Virginia, the first of its kind in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The region known for rocky soil, small farms, shipbuilding, and fishing.
What is New England?
Country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country
What is a colony?
She married John Rolfe, which helped improve relations between the English and the Powhatan.
Who is Pocahontas?
The colony founded by Puritans seeking religious freedom, with Boston as its main city.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
This 1620 agreement created a government for the Pilgrims before they landed in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The colonies with the nickname “breadbasket colonies” because of their grain production.
What are the Middle Colonies?
A document granting the right to organize settlements in an area.
What is a charter?
He founded the colony of Pennsylvania as a “holy experiment” for Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
The colony originally founded by the Dutch as New Netherland, later taken by the English.
What is New York?
The 1676 rebellion in Virginia that showed tensions between settlers and colonial leaders.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
The colonies where slavery became central to the economy because of tobacco and rice.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The belief that people of different faiths should live together in peace.
What is religious tolerance?
He was expelled from Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island, promoting religious freedom.
Who is Roger Williams?
The colony created as a safe place for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
*This 1692 event in Massachusetts led to hysteria and the trial and execution of accused witches.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
*The system where goods and slaves were traded between the colonies, Africa, and the West Indies.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Large farms in the Southern Colonies that grew crops for sale.
What are plantations?
What are plantations?
She was banished from Massachusetts for holding religious meetings in her home.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The southernmost of the 13 colonies, founded as a place for debtors and poor people.
What is Georgia?
England passed these laws to control trade and ensure the colonies benefited the mother country.
What are the Navigation Acts?
*Laws that defined the status of enslaved people and the rights of masters.
What are slave codes?