Early Colonies
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
Who helped save Jamestown by enforcing discipline and requiring settlers to work?
Captain John Smith
The New England colonies were founded mainly for what reason?
Religious reasons
The Puritans wanted to create a “city upon a ________.”
Hill
The economic theory that colonies exist to benefit the mother country is called what?
Mercantilism
The Pilgrims established what colony in 1620 for religious freedom?
Plymouth
Who introduced tobacco to Jamestown and married Pocahontas?
John Rolfe
The Middle Colonies were known as the “________ Colonies.”
Breadbasket
What type of government did the Massachusetts Bay Colony have, ruled by religious leaders?
Theocracy
What were the laws that restricted colonial trade to England?
The Navigation Acts
What company funded the Jamestown settlement to make a profit?
The Virginia Company
Who founded Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers?
William Penn
The Southern Colonies depended on what type of labor?
Enslaved labor / slavery
Who was banished from Massachusetts for challenging religious leaders?
Anne Hutchinson
The brutal voyage enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic was called what?
The Middle Passage
What was the first representative government in the English colonies?
The House of Burgesses
Who founded Rhode Island and believed in religious freedom and separation of church and state?
Roger Williams
Which colony established the Fundamental Orders, the first written constitution?
Connecticut
What event in Massachusetts showed the dangers of religious extremism?
The Salem Witch Trials
The trade route that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas was known as what?
The Triangular Trade
What document did the Pilgrims sign to establish self-government?
The Mayflower Compact
Who founded Georgia as a place for debtors to start over?
James Oglethorpe
Name two major cash crops grown in the Southern Colonies.
Tobacco and rice (also indigo acceptable)
What was the first college established in the colonies?
Harvard College
What was one way enslaved people resisted their condition?
Rebellion or preserving cultural traditions