Vocab
a group of investors who split the cost and profits for a colony.
Joint-Stock Company
Renaissance
was a period of revived learning and discovery in Europe.
a person that agrees to work without wages in exchange for passage to the colonies.
What is an Indentured Servant?
Quaker founder of the Keystone State
William Penn
John Rolfe
developed the tobacco industry in Virginia
French fort that controlled access to the St. Lawrence River
Fort Louisbourg
A. Iroquois Confederacy
B. The Mayflower Compact
C. The House of Burgesses
C. The House of Burgesses
is a person who learns a trade under a master of that trade.
Apprentice
Cash Crop
is a plant that is produced for pure profit.
a person who is given control over the government of a colony by a king or queen.
What is a Proprietor?
Virginian who fought in western Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin
developed the idea for the Albany Plan of Union
British fort built by George Washington
Fort Necessity
The main reason that most settlers came to colonies like Maryland, Massachusetts, Pennsylvania, and Rhode Island was for . . .
A. Religious freedom
B. Gold
C. Furs
A. Religious freedom
is causing suffering to someone because of their beliefs.
Persecution
Triangle Trade
a shipping route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
someone who protested against some practice or policy.
What is a Dissenter?
helped the Pilgrims survive their first year in America
Squanto
William Pitt
British governmental leader during the F & I War
Capital of New France and taken by General James Wolfe
Quebec
This product allowed Jamestown to be successful:
A. Gold
B. Tobacco
C. Corn
B. Tobacco
Explain how this quote demonstrates how the beliefs and values of the leader impacted the colony they created:
"I have great love and regard towards you (natives), and I desire to win your love and friendship, by a kind and peaceable life, and the people I send are of the same mind…" -William Penn
William Penn's desire for peace and acceptance led him to create Pennsylvania as a colony where all Christian denominations were accepted and native were treated fairly.
rule by lords who owe loyalty to a monarch.
Feudalism
French & Indian War
conflict between Britain & France for control of North America.
a series of wars to liberate the Holy Lands.
What were the Crusades?
saved the Jamestown settlement during its first winter
John Smith
Charles II
provided land grants to many proprietors
French fort at the forks of the Ohio River
Fort Duquesne
The government of Plymouth was based on this document:
A. The Treaty of Paris (1763)
B. The Mayflower Compact
C. Albany Plan of Union
B. The Mayflower Compact
Explain how this quote demonstrates how the beliefs and values of the leader impacted the colony they created:
"We shall be as a city on a hill…" -John Winthrop
Massachusetts was meant to be an example to others that cannot be hidden just as a city on top of a hill cannot be hidden. This was a very Christian idea.
was the colony that mysteriously disappeared.
Roanoke
a plan to create one government for the British Colonies.
the document that ended the French and Indian War.
What was the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
French general at the Battle of Quebec
Marquis de Montcalm
Sir Walter Raleigh
supported the two failed settlements at Roanoke Island
French fort that controlled access to the Great Lakes
Fort Niagara
The only people who could vote in Puritan Massachusetts were:
A. People over age 21
B. Adult male church members
C. All men
B. Adult male church members
Explain how this quote demonstrates how the beliefs and values of the leader impacted the colony they created:
"There was no talk…but dig gold, wash gold, refine gold, load gold…" -John Smith
Jamestown was focused only on gold which nearly destroyed their settlement because they were not farming.
putting up with ideas or beliefs that are different from your own.
Tolerance
Charter
was a legal contract giving certain powers to a founder in a colony.
a type of plant grown simply to provide food.
What is a Staple Crop?
British General killed in western Pennsylvania
Edward Braddock
James Wolfe
British general at the Battle of Quebec
British fort built on the ruins of a French fort
Fort Pitt
This event occurred due to the government refusing to defend the colony from native attacks:
A. The French & Indian War
B. The Salem Witch Trials
C. Bacon's Rebellion
C. Bacon's Rebellion
What were the four reasons that Europeans began to explore?
1. The Crusades
2. The Renaissance
3. The Reformation
4. Desire for New Resources
credited with saving John Smith
Pocahontas
Give two specific examples of European-Native interactions and their outcomes.
1. Squanto, Samoset, and Ousamequin meeting and trading with Pilgrims which saved them from winter
2. Wahunsenecah has shaky relationships with John Smith and Jamestown colonists as they force him to swear allegiance to their king. Pocahontas is married to John Rolfe.
3. Tituba is enslaved by Samuel Parris and this adds to the chaos of the Salem Witch Trials as she admitted to witchcraft and accused others.
4. Paxton massacre perpetrated by Presbyterian Christians in Pennsylvania leads to the deaths of 20 innocent Conestoga natives
5. Penn's sons cheat the Lenape out of their lands and expand Pennsylvania's borders