Colonial Settlements
Nearly ten thousand people settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony during its first ten years. What was this event called?
The Great Migration
A major part of southern culture were their large farms. What were they called?
Plantations
In the British colonies, which religious group was most active in Indian missions?
Puritans
What was given to each new settler upon arrival in the colonies?
Citizenship
By the late 1700s, which group composed nearly one-third of Pennsylvania’s population?
Germans
What became a valuable industry along the New England coast and off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland?
Fishing
Indians learned the Bible, European laws, and town life in small groups called?
Praying Towns
What was the main tax in the colonies?
Property tax
What group made up the second largest group of immigrants?
Scotts-Irish
Farmers who raised just enough crops and livestock to provide for their families were known as what?
Subsistence farmers
Who led settlers in 1675 to attack the Indians despite the governor’s wishes?
Nathaniel Bacon
What member of colonial government could veto laws, regulate land grants, and command the militia?
Governor
The first Africans who came to the New World arrived as what?
Indentured Servants
What trade system allowed some colonists, especially merchants who owned ships, to become very wealthy?
Triangular Trade
Why did many Indians resent settlers, even after some lived in praying towns?
They resented the loss of land and power
Who was responsible for trying people accused of crimes and settling disputes between citizens
justices
What was the frontier in colonial America?
The undeveloped area at the edge of the settled areas
Why were the Middle Colonies called "bread colonies?"
They had fertile plains for growing cereal grains: corn oats barley & wheat
What Puritan minister learned the Algonquin language and translated the Bible into it?
John Eliot
Who was allowed to vote for representatives in the colonies?
Free adult white male property owners (freeholders or freemen)