The Southern Colonies
The New England Colonies
The Middle Colonies
Life in the English Colonies
100
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
100
This Protestant group wanted to purify, or reform, the Anglican Church. They thought the bishops and priests had too much power over church members.
Who are the Puritans?
100
These are crops that are always needed.
What are staple crops?
100
These were the center of politics in New England. Here people talked about and decided on issues of local interest, such as paying for schools.
What are town meetings?
200
People who signed a contract to work for 4-7 years for those who paid for their journey to America.
What are indentured servants.
200
This Separatist group left England in the early 1600s to escape religious persecution. 
Who are the Pilgrims?
200
This man's colony was an important example of self-government, or a government that reflects its citizens' will.
Who was William Penn?
200
A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa.
What was triangular trade?
300
This man took control of Jamestown in 1608. It fared much better under his leadership as he forced settlers to build better housing and rewarded hard workers with food. 
Who is John Smith?
300
This legal contract agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good. It represents one of the first attempts at self-government in the English colonies.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
300
Also known as the Society of Friends, this religious group believed in the equality of men and women, and supported nonviolence and religious tolerance.
Who were the Quakers?
300
This act, passed in 1689, replaced the unpopular King James with Parliament and reduced the powers of the English monarch.
What was the English Bill of Rights?
400
Under this, colonists who paid their own way to Virginia received 50 acres of land.
What is the headright system?
400
This religious leader did not agree with the leadership of Massachusetts. He called for his church to separate completely from the other New England congregations. He and his followers formed a settlement called Providence, late becoming Rhode Island. 
Who was Roger Williams?
400
Led by Peter Stuyvesant, this Dutch colony was founded in 1613 as a trading post for exchanging furs with the Iroquois.
What was New Netherland?
400
This was a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. This had a massive impact on colonial social, political, and religious life.
What was the Great Awakening?
500
This bill made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
500
Between 1629 and 1640, more than 40,000 English men, women, and children moved to English colonies in New England during this movement. 
What was the Great Migration?
500
Capital city meaning "the city of brotherly love."
What is Philadelphia?
500
This movement, which took place during the 1700s, spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society.
What was the Enlightenment?