Name that Colony
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200

This was the first English colony in the New World comprising of settlements such as Jamestown and Plymouth.

Virginia
200

To disagree.

Dissent

200
This adventurer made the colonists of Jamestown work and helped in trades with the Native Powhatan.

John Smith

200

This region relied solely on agriculture in which it utilized enslaved Africans.

The Southern Colonies

200

The most infamous accusations of witchcraft were made in this Massachusetts settlement. 

Salem

400

This colony was given to eight proprietors before splitting into two and becoming royal colonies.

Carolina

400

Person who goes on a religious journey.

Pilgrim

400

This leader for this second attempt at Roanoke found his whole family missing after returning from England.

John White

400

The perfect conditions for farming in addition to mining and trading in port towns defined this region.

The Middle Colonies

400

An agreement between individuals and the government, where citizens consent to surrender certain rights in exchange for protection and the maintenance of social order makes up this key political theory.

The Social Contract

600

The Mason-Dixon Line is the border between these two states.

Pennsylvania and Maryland

600

Relating to national, tribal, racial, religious, language, or cultural background.

Ethnic

600

This lawyer and landowner helped the Puritans remaining in England get a colonial charter from the king.

John Winthrop

600

Fishing and whaling as well as lumber and various forms of craftsmen were key in this region.

New England

600

A period in which settlers in Jamestown ran low in supplies leading to hundreds of deaths.

The Starving Time

800

This colony was established to protect the other colonies from the Spanish in Florida.

Georgia

800

Repressive rules governing the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans.

Slave Code

800

This tobacco planter improved relations between the settlers and Powhatan and marries the Powhatan chief’s daughter, Pocahontas.

John Rolfe

800

These were the four major cash crops.

Rice, corn, wheat, and tobacco

800

This law was passed to ensure both Catholics and Protestants could practice their religions in Maryland.

The Act of Toleration

1000

Thomas Hooker was a minister who opposed the religious intolerance in Massachusetts and led a group to settle this colony

Connecticut

1000

A religious group that wanted to purify the Church of England

Puritan

1000

This settler and sea captain was an original member of the Virginia Governor's Council before his murder by the Powhatan.

Governor John Ratcliffe

1000

This harsh voyage from Africa to the Americas was second leg of the triangular trade.

The Middle Passage

1000

Written in 1639, this was the first written constitution in America.

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

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