Unit 1: Colonization

1

100

Where people invest in a company with the hopes that it will be successful and give money back to them.

Joint Stock Company

200

This person taught the Separatists how to farm...

Squanto

300

When John Smith left Jamestown it began to decline, leading to food shortages and a time known as...

Starving Time

400

System in which English settlers could bring over their indentured servants in exchange for land in the colony which they could work on. 

Headright System

500

Leader of the Dutch colony in New Netherlands and later New York.

Peter Stuyvesant 

2

100

What is the name of the document that was written as a social contract for self-government?

The Mayflower Compact of 1620

200

Where church leaders are also the government leaders.

Theocracy 

300

Economic policy where the mother country profits from its colonies raw materials.

Mercantilism

400

Which group went to Pennsylvania with William Penn?

Quakers

500

A system where a person could bring 50 other settlers to New Netherlands and receive an acre of land in exchange. It was a way in which more people were brought to the colony. 

Patroon System 

3

100

Who lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony and who led them? 

Puritans; John Winthrop 

200

Which colony was established as a "religious utopia" and a "holy experiment" by William Penn?

Pennsylvania 

300

Which European country came for God, Gold, & Glory and was the 1st to come to the New World?

Spain

400

Who established the Rhode Island colony?

Roger Williams & Ann Hutchinson 

500

Who helped establish the colony of Connecticut?

Thomas Hooker

4

100

Rice, Indigo & Tobacco were important agricultural products of which colonial region?

Southern

200

What is name of the first legislative assembly in the colonies?

The Virginia House of Burgesses

300

Who established the Georgia colony?

James Oglethorpe

400

What is the name of the system established after the Native American slave labor died of disease ?

Transatlantic Slave Trade (triangular slave trade)

500

Captain John Smith

Who is the one time leader of Jamestown settlement who told the people: "He who will not work shall not eat."

5

100

These people took part in the First Thanksgiving...

Pilgrims/Separatists

200

What was the first representative legislature in the colonies? It was located at Jamestown

The Virginia House of Burgesses

300

Which native tribe were having tensions with the Jamestown settlers? 

Powhatan 

400

This person brought tobacco to Jamestown and married Pocahontas.

John Rolfe

500

What was the document written for Connecticut?

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut