Famous People
This English explorer founded Jamestown and became famous for his relationship with Pocahontas.
Who is John Smith?
This 1620 agreement established a framework for self-government among the Pilgrims.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1675–1676 conflict devastated Native and colonial communities in New England.
What is King Philip's War? (Metcom's war)
This Protestant group founded Pennsylvania and emphasized religious toleration and equality.
Who are the Quakers?
The belief that colonies existed primarily to benefit the economic interests of the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
This Puritan leader served as governor of Massachusetts Bay and promoted the idea of a "city upon a hill."
Who is John Winthrop?
These British laws attempted to regulate colonial trade and strengthen the mercantilist system.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This 1637 conflict involved English colonists and the Pequot people.
What is the Pequot War?
This Puritan minister was banished from Massachusetts because of his religious and political views.
Who is Roger Williams?
This term describes the practice of giving colonists land in exchange for their agreement to settle or develop a particular area.
What is a land grant?
This dissenter founded Rhode Island after being expelled from Massachusetts Bay.
Who is Roger Williams?
This 1639 document established a form of self-government in Connecticut and is often considered an early example of written constitutional government in the English colonies. (Daily double)
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This 1676 rebellion was led by a Virginia planter against the colonial government.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This woman challenged Puritan religious authorities and was eventually banished from Massachusetts.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
Britain's unofficial policy of allowing the colonies considerable freedom from strict enforcement of imperial regulations.
What is Salutary neglect?
This Pennsylvania founder promoted religious toleration and established a colony associated with the Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
This is the representative assembly in Virginia, established in 1619.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Give ONE reason conflicts between Native Americans and European colonists became increasingly common.
Competition over land, resources, trade, or cultural differences.
Why did Puritans establish Massachusetts Bay?
To establish a community based on their religious beliefs and create what they viewed as a godly society.
A labor system in which individuals worked for a set number of years in exchange for transportation, room, board, or other benefits.
What is indentured servitude?
This Native American leader led a major conflict against New England colonists in 1675–1676.
Who is Metacom (King Philip)?
These laws became increasingly important in the late 1600s as colonies legally defined enslaved people as property and established racial distinctions.
What are Slave codes?
Explain how Bacon's Rebellion contributed to changes in Virginia's labor system.
Colonial elites increasingly turned toward enslaved African labor as a permanent labor force and developed racial laws that reduced dependence on indentured servants.
How did religious disagreements contribute to the creation of new colonies in British North America?
Religious dissenters such as Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson challenged Massachusetts authorities, contributing to the establishment of colonies such as Rhode Island.
This concept describes the growing belief among colonists that they had political rights and could govern many of their own affairs.
What is natural rights, enlightenment principles, self-government / colonial political autonomy?