Lost & Found: Colonial Edition
This settlement, founded in 1607, became England's first successful permanent colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
These four colonies made up the New England region.
What are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire?
These workers agreed to labor for approximately four to seven years in exchange for passage to America.
Who are indentured servants?
This type of colony was controlled directly by the king.
What is a royal colony?
This religious group, also known as Separatists, sailed to America aboard the Mayflower in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This English colony mysteriously disappeared, leaving behind the word "Croatoan" carved into a tree.
What is Roanoke?
This colonial region earned the nickname "Breadbasket Colonies" because of its grain production.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This brutal ocean voyage carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This type of local government allowed eligible colonists to gather, vote, and make decisions for their community.
What are town meetings?
This religious group established the Massachusetts Bay Colony and believed hard work and strict religious practices would help their colony succeed.
Who are the Puritans?
This man helped Jamestown survive by requiring colonists to work for their food.
Who is John Smith?
Rocky soil, cold winters, forests, and natural harbors helped this region develop fishing, shipbuilding, and trade.
What is New England?
This economic theory stated that colonies existed to increase the wealth and power of their mother country.
What is mercantilism?
Established in Virginia in 1619, this became the first representative legislative assembly (representative government) in English colonial America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This religious revival of the 1730s encouraged people to develop a more personal relationship with God and question traditional authority.
What is the Great Awakening?
This document, signed aboard the Mayflower in 1620, was an early example of self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This colonial region had a warm climate and long growing season, making it ideal for large plantations and cash crops.
What are the Southern Colonies?
These English laws restricted colonial trade and encouraged some colonists to smuggle goods.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This 1639 Connecticut document is often described as the first written constitution in the English colonies.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This Enlightenment thinker argued that people possess natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This crop, introduced to Jamestown by John Rolfe, transformed the struggling settlement into a profitable colony.
What is tobacco?
This term describes farming in which families grow only enough food to meet their own needs.
What is subsistence farming?
According to mercantilism, a country wanted to sell more goods to other countries than it purchased from them, creating this economic condition.
What is a favorable balance of trade?
(Export more than you import)
This English policy of loosely enforcing colonial laws helped colonists become accustomed to governing themselves.
What is salutary neglect?
This Enlightenment thinker believed government power should be divided among separate branches to prevent abuse.
Who is Montesquieu?