Vocab
Colonies
Religion
New World
Britain
100

A company whose shareholders own stock in the company

joint-stock company

100

John Smith was able to keep the colonists at Jamestown from starving by doing this

forming a relationship with the Powhatan Native Americans, who helped the colonists with food in exchange for European goods

100

This colonial region was known for diversity thanks to Quaker Doctrine

The Middle Colonies

100

The name of the ship carrying the Pilgrims to the New World

The Mayflower

100

The name of the "Great Charter" that controlled the power of King John in 1215

The Magna Carta

200

A country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country

colony

200

The first example of representative government in Jamestown, Virginia

The House of Burgesses 

200

This type of person would likely want to live in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

An extremely religious person who is willing to follow exactly what the church says

200

Why was slavery so pervasive in the South?

The soil was good and the colonists wanted free labor.

200

The type of government in Britain

Monarchy

300

A written grant establishing an institution and detailing members’ rights and privileges

Charter

300

The reason that the relationship between the Powhatan's and the colonists soured

John Smith was injured and went home to England

300

The people who lived in the Massachusetts Bay Colony answered to this authority

The church

300

The Jamestown colonists were looking for this when they began their colony

gold

300

The name of the war that brought on the taxes that ended Salutary Neglect

French and Indian War

400

A person under contract to work, usually without pay, in exchange for free passage to the colonies

Indentured Servant

400

This colonial region was known for agriculture and was quickly dependent on slavery for labor. 

The Southern Colonies

400
William Penn considered himself this religion

Quaker

400

First cash crop in Jamestown

tobacco

400

For many years, the British policy towards the colonists was this

Salutary Neglect

500

The English govt. was busy with other things, so they did not strictly enforce their colonial policies, so the colonies basically ran themselves

Salutary Neglect

500

This type of person was likely to want to settle in Jamestown

A young man interested in striking it rich in the New World

500

One value that Quakers believe in 

diversity

500

The Plymouth Colony and the Massachusetts Bay Colony were both founded in order to seek this

religious freedom

500

This government body limited the power of the King in Britain

Parliament 

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