Colonial America
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On May 14, 1607, 100 settlers founded the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
These two people were married in an effort to create peace between the colonists and the Powhatan Native Americans.
Who are John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
He was known as King Philip by the English and he believed the agreement made between his father and colonists was no longer being honored by the colonists.
Who is Metacom?
Upon realizing that they’d reached land far north of Virginia, and thus outside of the rule of Virginia’s colonial government, those aboard the Mayflower wrote out a new set of rules and laws which they agreed to live by in what would become the new colony that they were about to create.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This became a lucrative cash crop, saving Jamestown, which required an intense amount of manual labor to grow and harvest.
What is tobacco?
This region had the best climate for growing crops due to fertile soil and a warm climate?
What are the Southern Colonies?
These two European nations dominated early exploration in the New World.
What is Portugal and Spain?
This was someone who agreed to work under a contract in exchange their passage to America would be paid by the person that they worked for.
What is an indentured servant?
In 1636, this minister was forced to leave Massachusetts Bay colony and he started the settlement of Providence.
Who is Roger Williams?
In 1610, this person brought sweet South American tobacco seeds with him to Jamestown. The tobacco crop would have a massive impact on the colony.
Who is John Rolfe?
A group of six different Native American tribes that aligned themselves with the British during King Philip's War.
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
Due to Bacon's Rebellion and the death of Native Americans due to diseases, plantation owners begin to fulfill their labor needs with a new source of labor.
Who are captured and enslaved Africans?
Shortly after the signing of the Mayflower Compact, the Mayflower made landfall at Plymouth Rock located in the present-day state of Massachusetts. They named the colony:
What is Plymouth Colony?
A large feast the Pilgrims shared with Squanto and the Wampanoag tribe to show thanks for their help.
What is the first Thanksgiving?
What is Roanoke Island?
This movement occurred during the 1700s and influenced how many colonists viewed science and its contributions to society
What is the Enlightenment Movement?
This person required colonists in Jamestown, to work harder and more efficiently. He incentivized them into doing so, by rewarding the best workers with extra food. “He who will not work, shall not eat,” was a famous quote.
Under this system, colonists who paid for their own transportation from England to Virginia would receive 50 acres of land for free. And an additional 50 acres of land for every person they brought with them.
What is the Headright system?
The place where the war started because a conflict between English and French colonists over territory.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
1 out of every 6 captured and enslaved African dies during this journey from the coast of Africa to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
This man led the Puritans from England, in search of religious freedom and economic opportunity, and they settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
Thomas Hooker, a minister, and his followers left Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1636 to form a new colony that was more democratic in nature and one that had a government, not as heavily influenced by religion.
What is Connecticut?
A dutchman who purchased Manhattan Island from local Native Americans for $24.
Who is Peter Minuit?
He was one of the most prominent leaders during the Great Awakening.
This tribe provided colonists in Jamestown with additional supplies of food and taught them how to grow corn.
Who are the Powhatan Native Americans?
A group of investors who pool their money together to pay for the costs of founding and establishing a new settlement with the hope that the settlement will then produce a profit for the investors.
What is a joint-stock company?
This was built in the modern-day city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The French built this on what the British believed was their territory.
What is Fort Duquesne?
A scattering of enslaved Africans throughout the New World.
What is the African Diaspora?
This was the first attempted British settlement in the New World. It was founded by Sir Walter Raleigh near North Carolina.
What is Roanoke Island?
In 1639, Thomas Hooker put together a set of principles that he felt would ensure Connecticut would have a more democratic form of government. The first written constitution in the Western world.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
In 1584, this person received a charter to establish the first English colony in the New World and he soon thereafter sent an expedition from England.
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh?
In 1673 French explorer Louis Joliet and French missionary Jacques Marquette went in search of this great river to explore it.
What is the Mississippi River?
In 1609, another 400 settlers arrived in Jamestown. However, extreme winter conditions, disease, and famine combined devastated the population of Jamestown, as only 60 colonists survived to see the following spring. The winter of 1609 to 1610 was called this:
What is the Starving Time?
In 1619 this was established which granted some colonists the right to participate in their local government. Only white men who owned land could vote. It was the first form of government elected by the people in the New World.
What is the Virginia House of Burgess?
On July 13, 1755, he died after being mortally wounded in an ambush on a failed expedition to capture Fort Duquesne from the French.
Who is General Edward Braddock?
A period throughout the early 1700s, especially during the 1730s & 1740s, where a transformation of religious thought reshaped how many English colonists viewed their religious faith and spirituality.
What is the Great Awakening?
Jamestown was set ablaze by angry indentured servants and their main leader died shortly thereafter giving way to the name of this outbreak of violence.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This war was being fought between the British and the French in the New World and in Europe. It has two names, one of them being the Seven Years War.
What is the French and Indian War?
This country primarily established settlements in what are now the present day states of Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, New Jersey, New York, and Pennsylvania. (Prior to British settlements)
What is the Dutch?
In 1608, this Frenchman founded a colony on the Saint Lawrence River named Québec
Who is Samuel de Champlain?
These were some of the main factors that led to about two-thirds of the colonists in Jamestown dying about 8 months after their arrival. (At least 2)
What are no experience farming, fishing, or hunting, unwilling to work, did not have skills for survival, being attacked by Native Americans, and disease from the marshes?
in 1759, this battle changed the momentum of the French and Indian war, giving the British the morale they needed to win the war.
What is the Battle of Quebec?
This was signed by the British and the French on February 10, 1763, officially ending the Seven Years War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
This guy was the first Native American to make contact with the Pilgrims. He introduce the Pilgrims to Squanto.
Who is Samoset?
This guy taught the colonists how to catch herring, to fertilize maize, squash and beans, how to catch eels and other seafood, and how to trap and hunt wildlife. He helped the Pilgrims recover from their extremely hard first winter.
Who is Squanto?
The name of the voyage that: Often crammed together in the lower decks of slave ships and chained to one another, an untold number of enslaved Africans died during the 3 to 6 months long voyage across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
An agreement between the Kingdoms of Spain and Portugal that defined where each could explore and claim lands. Negotiated by Pope Alexander the VI, the Spanish were granted rights to all lands westward of a line drawn through the Atlantic Ocean, and the Portuguese received lands eastward.
What is the Treaty of Tordesillas?
This group were a sect of a Protestant group called the Puritans who believed that bishops and priests had been given too much power and authority in the Church of England, so they wanted to separate from the church?
Who are the Pilgrims?