Colonies
This region benefitted from wonderful soil and great weather...and slavery.
The Southern Colonies
This document protected religions in Maryland.
The Toleration Act.
Founded his colony as a safe place for Quakers.
William Penn
Protest event where the first colonists died.
Boston Massacre
The first colony was founded to make the settlers money.
Jamestown, Virginia
This document was an agreement between settlers to govern their new colony.
The Mayflower Compact
The first group to come to "the New World" in search of religious freedom.
Puritans.
Protest event that directly led to the passing of the Intolerable Acts.
The second colony was founded to offer the settlers religious freedom.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
This served as the first written constitution in the colonies.
The Fundamentals of Connecticut
Founded his colony as a safe place for Catholics.
Lord Baltimore
The conflict for control of the Ohio River Valley.
The French & Indian War.
This region had to use water and lumber to make money.
The New England Colonies.
The first legislative body in the colonies.
The Virginia House of Burgesses.
Fled Massachusetts because of his belief in the separation of church & state.
Thomas Hooker
Group best known for tarring and feathering British tax collectors.
The Sons of Liberty