J-Town
Modern day state were Jamestown was founded.
What is Virginia?
The Pilgrims landed in this modern state.
What is Massachusetts?
This event led to the creation of racial attitudes and a shift in the source of labor in Colonial America.
What was Bacon's Rebellion
The primary source of labor in the English East Coast colonies between 1607-1676.
What is an indentured servant?
The main reason colonists fought Native Americans in Colonial America.
What are land disputes?
The cash crop that brought economic success to Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
The Pilgrims came to America looking for this.
What is religious freedom?
Voyage undertaken by Africans which is often described as one of the powerful experiences in African-American history.
What is the Middle Passage?
Both worked under the rule that they were bound to their master but one was given their freedom after two to fourteen years while the other was always considered property.
What was the biggest difference between an indetured servant and a slave?
These three events are examples of the first forms of democracy in the New World.
What are the House of Burgesses (Representative Assembly), Mayflower Compact ( a constitution) and town meetings (local government - direct democracy)?
This person is known for saving John Smith's life and helping keep the peace between her people and the Jamestown settlers.
Who is Pocahontas?
The Native American who taught the Plymouth colonists how to farm and gather food and helped create good relationships between Native tribes and the settlers.
Who is Squanto?
Group who joined Nathanael Bacon's attack on Jamestown when the Governor refused to protect them from Native American tribes in Western Virginia.
Who are former indentured servants?
A worker with the freedom to move about, change jobs, performed skilled jobs with a flexible work schedule and had time for family and faith.
Who is a free laborer?
Founded in Virginia to make a profit.
What was Jamestown?
Although he was in charge for only a year (and unpopular because of his demanding ways) this man is responsible for keeping the Jamestown colony from falling apart by providing structure and getting people to work.
Who was John Smith?
He was governor of Plymouth for thirty years, helped institute town meetings, helped create the Mayflower Compact, and set up good relationships with Native Americans.
Who was William Bradford?
Native Americans cannot fight LONG wars and have trouble unifying with other native tribes. They prefer quick attacks and seek solutions to conflicts that would return them to farming and their way of life quickly.
What did American colonists learn about Native American tribes as a result of King Philip's War?
These people were descendants of the Pilgrims, fought in or witnessed King Philip's war and gathered for town meetings.
Who are colonists who lived in or near Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay?
European country who claimed the thirteen Atlantic Coast colonies in America.
What is England?
First example of a representative democracy in America, different sections of Jamestown sent representatives elected by white land owners to create laws for the colony.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The first constitution in American history, created by the people (not a king), promised to create equal laws and led to the use of town meetings.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Bacon and some ex-indentured servants rose up and violently protested the belief that their government was not respecting the needs and interests of its people leading historians to consider it this.
What is the first acts of Revolution in American history?
The reliance of one group on another for items it could not produce.
What is Economic Interdependence?
The three colonial regions and the thirteen colonies in them.
What are New England - New Hampshire, Massachussets, Connecticut, Rhode Island. Middle - New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. Southern - Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia?