Religion
This religious group settled in mainly New England after being oppressed and harassed by King James I.
What are the Puritans?
This colony, founded in 1607, was located in a swampy, terrible place for colonization. Tobacco would eventually rescue the colony from destruction.
What is Jamestown?
This was the leading industry in America.
What is agriculture?
What is indentured servitude?
This word means that colonies exist for the sole purpose of aiding the mother country.
This preacher was a main figure of the Great Awakening; his most famous sermon was "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This colony was established as a save haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This cash crop was the Chesapeake's most important product.
Farmers in the West Indies who immigrated to the Carolinas brought over these rules concerning slaves.
This college, founded in New Jersey, was founded as an effect of the Great Awakening, serving the purpose of a "new light" school.
What is Princeton?
This radical idealist was disillusioned with the Church of Massachusetts; banished by the Massachusetts authorities, he later founded the colony of Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
These people, who usually owned no land and had a rebellious nature, would eventually split the Carolinas into North Carolina and South Carolina.
What are squatters?
This act severely restricted trade with foreign nations, which lead to the rise of American's smuggling.
What is the Molasses Act?
This infamous second leg of triangular trade was a brutal experience for African slaves bought in Africa.
What is the Middle Passage?
This man began a rebellion of 1,000 men in Jamestown to get voting rights back and protest George Berkeley's friendly land policy with Natives.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
This was the dominant religion in the southern colonies.
What is Anglicanism? (Church of England)
This colony, founded by Quakers, was the best advertised of all the colonies.
What is Pennsylvania?
This system allowed landowners to gain 50 more acres of land for every indentured servant they brought over.
This group of labor was considered more rebellious than African slaves, which led to the rise of African slavery as the labor force in the south.
What are white indentured servants?
This new format for religious membership dimmed the distinction between the "elect" and the commoners in New England.
What is the Halfway Covenant?
This belief, popularized by Anne Hutchinson, stated that a holy life was no sure sign of salvation.
What is antinomianism?
This colony was established as a buffer colony to protect the Carolinas from the Spanish colony of Florida?
What is Georgia?
This system for trade took New England trading ships from New England, to the gold coast of Africa, and then to the West Indies before returning to New England.
What is "triangular trade"?
This river was the site of a African slave revolt in 1739.
What is the Stono River?
These sermons chastised churchgoers for their dimming spiritual piety.
What are jeremiads?