Southern Colonies
The first settlement established in Virginia.
What is Jamestown?
Religious freedom and toleration, economic opportunities, food, and diversity are all examples of this.
What are Pull factors?
This religious group known for their strict moral principles founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Who are the Pilgrims/Puritans/ or separatists?
Daughter of Powhatan, married John Rolfe.
Who is Pocahontas?
A "fancy permission slip," or a document from higher power which gives you authority to do something.
What is a Charter?
The Indigenous people in the Virginia Area are known as this. (Also the name of their leader)
What are the or who is Powhatan?
The name of New York under Dutch rule before the English conquered it.
What is New Amsterdam?
This document is sometimes referred to as the first US Constitution, and was meant to establish rules and laws for Puritans to live by in Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Founder of Pennsylvania, Quaker, fervent supporter of religious freedom.
Who is William Penn?
This type of colony was run by a wealthy individual or group of rich people appointed by the crown.
What is a proprietary colony?
Joint-stock company responsible for settling the Virginia Territory.
What is the Virginia Company?
This religious group cared deeply about social justice issues, and were the primary settlers of the Pennsylvania Colony.
Who are the Quakers?
What is Shipbuilding or what is fishing?
Man credited for saving Jamestown during the "starving times"
Who was John Smith?
The first governing body in Colonial America was known as this.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This rebellion in Virginia showed how average colonists' were displeased with how the British Crown was dealing with Native Americans.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
These four states make up the Middle Colonies.
What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
This large scale conflict between the Native Americans and New England colonists was the largest war that occurred in the colonies before the American Revolution.
What is King Philip's War?
This native American helped Plymouth Colony survive because he had the ability to speak English, so he taught them how to fish and grow corn.
Who is Squanto?
This "push factor" was the most pressing issue driving people like the Puritans out of England.
What is religious persecution?
These five states make up the southern colonies.
What are Virginia, Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Maryland?
A nickname for The Middle Colonies because of the crops that were grown there.
What is the "breadbasket" colonies?
These four states make up the New England Colonies.
What are Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, and Rhode Island.
These two people were banish from Plymouth colony for religious dissidence and went on to found the colony of Rhode Island.
Who are Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
What is the frontier?