13 Colonies
The first permanent English settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown.
Religious separatists who wanted to cut all ties with the Church of England.
Who were the Pilgrims.
Fueled by teenage girls in Puritan New England who accused women in the community of casting spells on them.
What was the Salem Witch Trials.
Agreed to work 4-7 years in exchange for passage to the New World.
Who were Indentured Servants.
This colony was established as the Dutch colony of New Netherland.
What is New York.
The joint/stock company that agreed to establish Jamestown.
What was the London Company.
Established by the Pilgrims in 1620.
Plymouth Plantation
The first of their kind established in Puritan New England so that children could learn to read the Bible.
What were Common Schools.
Winter of 1609-1610 in Jamestown Virginia.
What was the Starving Time.
This colony outlawed slavery and offered land grants for the poor coming from England.
What is Georgia.
System in which colonists who paid their way to Virginia Colony received 50 acres of land.
What was the Headright System.
Harvest festival shared between the Pilgrims and Pokanoket people fall of 1621.
What was the First Thanksgiving.
Religious group that founded Pennsylvania and believed in religious freedom and nonviolence.
Who were the Quakers.
Believed people could talk directly to God without a minister. Excommunicated from Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who was Anne Hutchinson.
This colony specialized in growing rice as a cash crop and had thousands of slaves by 1730.
What is South Carolina.
The powerful alliance of Algonquian Indians in Virginia.
What was the Powhatan Confederacy.
Established by religious Puritans who came over during the Great Migration in 1630.
What was Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Founded the colony of Maryland for Catholics fleeing religious persecution.
Who was Lord Baltimore.
Author of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
Who was Thomas Hooker.
One of the first laws in the colonies that made restricting religious rights of Christians a crime.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649.
Leader of a rebellion of Indentured Servants in Virginia.
Who was Nathaniel Bacon.
Said " Those who will not work, shall not eat".
Captain John Smith.
The legal contract that was one of the first attempts at self-government in the New World.
What was the Mayflower Compact.
Expanded voting rights and made New England more democratic.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
The legislative assembly of Virginia.
What was the House of Burgesses.