Founded by the Society of Friends in 1681
What is Pennsylvania?
Peg-legged governor of the American Dutch colony that was invaded and conquered by English troops in 1664.
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
Maryland colonial residents adopted this 1649 law, both because it was morally right and because they hoped to attract more settlers there
What is The Act of Toleration?
The first "gold" for settlers in the Virginia colony in the 1610's, it led to the introduction of slavery there in 1619
What is tobacco?
Individuals, usually desperate for money or a change in their lives, that went to work for farmers in the American colonies in exchange for the cost of their passage across the Atlantic Ocean
Who are Indentured Servants?
Founded in 1732 as a penal colony for prisoners "transported" there as punishment
What is Georgia?
Virginia tobacco farmer who married Pocahontas, daughter of Chief Powhatan who led a confederation of around thirty tribes along the east coast
Who is John Rolfe?
Popularly-elected colonial legislature that convened for the first time in 1619.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
First two products successfully sold to the English in the 1600's by the New England colonies
What are rum and dried fish?
Indian confederacy in what is now New York state consisting of the Oneida, the Onandaga, the Mohawk, the Seneca, and the Cayuga Native American tribes
What is the Iroquois Confederation?
American river along which Dutch settlers set up a land grant system called "patroons" in the 1620's and 1630's
What is the Hudson River?
English king after whom the Carolina colony was named
Who is King Charles II?
The 1620 agreement among English Separatists that they would abide by the decisions made by a majority of the group.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Principal cash crop of the South Carolina colony after 1729
What is rice?
Biggest killer of Native Americans during the Colonial Period (1600-1760).
What is smallpox?
Colony founded in 1632 as a haven for English Catholics being harassed by the Church of England
What is Maryland?
Puritan leader who told Massachusetts Bay elders that God spoke to her. She was subsequently kicked out of the colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Personification of a Catholic saint, brought to the Americas by the Dutch, who is purported to bring sweets to children on his feast day, December 6
Who is Sinterklaas or Sint-Nicolaus?
Principal export of the Pennsylvania colony in the 1600's and 1700's, that took advantage of England's voracious appetite for fuel for its steam engines and space for its sheep
What is wood (lumber)?
Name given to the exodus of around 10,000 Puritans to the Massachusetts Bay colony during the 1630's
What is The Great Migration?
This colony's founder named its capital after a synonym for God.
What is Rhode Island?
Individual honored with a 37-foot statue atop Philadelphia's City Hall
Who is William Penn?
New England Native American chief who waged a fierce, bloody war against English settlers in the 1670's
Who is King Philip or Metacomet?
Crop that produced the demand for the most slaves in the Americas, beginning in the 1500's.
What is sugar?
The concept that the English (after 1707 British) government did little to interfere with the operation of the economically successful American colonies
What is "salutary neglect?"