What is the nickname for the 1609-1610 winter when ⅔ of the Jamestown colonists died?
Starving Time
Who are the two Wampanoag Native Americans who helped the Pilgrims tremendously?
Squanto And Samoset
How long were the enslaved Africans on the boat for?
Over 2 months
Who was the proprietor/owner of Pennsylvania?
William Penn
What are all the Southern Colonies?
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
Why did so many Jamestown settlers die early on?
Disease and Hunger
Who is the guy who started the Rhode Island colony in 1635 after he was banished by John Winthrop for complaining that Puritans should not punish people for worshiping differently or seize Native American Lands without paying for them?
Roger Williams
The terrifying journey African slaves took from West Africa to the Americas
The Middle Passage
The Dutch Colony that was in modern-day New York! The English took it away when James Duke of York sent warships to this colony’s capital city, New Amsterdam!
New Netherlands
What was the Boundary that Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon drew that separates Pennsylvania and Maryland?
Mason-Dixon Line
What were the first successful English Colonies in North America?
Jamestown
What is the document that the Pilgrims signed that called for a representative government where officeholders would be elected by the Plymouth Colony’s adult males?
Mayflower Compact.
What kind of slaves did the African kingdoms give to the Europeans?
criminals or prisoners of war
What is the colony Penn allowed to form their own legislature and function as a separate colony?
Delaware
What is the Maryland law that allowed all Christians (including Catholics and Protestants) to worship as they pleased?
Act of Toleration
This man was the main reason why the Jamestown Colony survived its first two years.
John Smith
What was the Great Migration?
When 15,000 Puritans left England for the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
What are Slave Codes?
Strict laws that restricted the rights and activities of slaves.
Who did James, the Duke of York, give the land between the Hudson River and the Delaware River, called New Jersey, to?
Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret
The colony that James Oglethorpe established to give debtors a fresh start and to keep the Spanish bottled up in Florida! (Remember the real OG)
Georgia Colony
Who gave Sir Walter Raleigh the right to claim land in America?
Queen Elizabeth
What is the Colony that the Puritans started to escape religious persecution?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
What was enormously profitable for African Nations' Economies?
Slave Trades
How did Penn attract settlers?
He printed pamphlets in several languages and distributed them in England and all over the European Continent
What are Indentured Servants?
A person who signed a contract to work for 4-10 years in the colonies for anyone who would pay for his or her ocean passage to the Americas