Jamestown & Early Colonies
This was the first permanent English colony founded in North America in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
This colony was founded by Pilgrims seeking religious freedom in 1620.
What is Plymouth Colony?
This colony was founded by Roger Williams and became known for religious freedom.
What is Rhode Island?
The location of the thirteen colonies
What is the East Coast?
This brutal voyage transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
The Native American confederation that interacted with the Jamestown settlers.
Who were the Powhatan?
This document established a government based on majority rule in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This colony was founded by Thomas Hooker and supported representative government.
What is Connecticut?
The three colonial regions were New England, Middle Colonies, and this region.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This religious revival in the colonies increased church membership and unity.
What is the First Great Awakening?
Jamestown eventually became profitable because of this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
This Native American helped the Pilgrims survive by teaching them farming methods.
Who was Squanto?
This colony was founded by William Penn as a safe place for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This Dutch colony later became the English colony of New York.
What is New Netherland?
This economic system required colonies to supply raw materials to the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This representative assembly formed in 1619 allowed colonists to participate in government.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This Puritan woman was banished from Massachusetts Bay for challenging religious authority.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
This major city founded by William Penn became a center for trade and culture.
What is Philadelphia?
These European settlers focused mainly on the fur trade in North America.
Who were the French?
These British laws restricted colonial trade to benefit England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This deadly winter in 1609–1610 caused many Jamestown settlers to die from starvation and disease.
What was the Starving Time?
These trials in 1692 resulted from accusations of witchcraft in Massachusetts.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
This colony served as both a debtor colony and a buffer colony against Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
These settlers focused on spreading Christianity and finding gold in the Americas.
Who were the Spanish?
The two types of slave resistance.
What are overt and passive?