Vocabulary
This is an area of land or a settlement that is ruled by another country. Europeans took these because they believed they had large amounts of wealth.
What is a colony?
This act, passed in 1717, made it so England could send prisoners to the colony of Jamestown as indentured servants until their time was paid off.
What is the Transportation Act?
The description of the seasons or climate of the New England colonies.
What are long, harsh winters with a short growing season?
The description of the seasons or climate of the Middle colonies.
What is very mild, with cold, wet winters and long, hot summers with lots of rain?
The description of the seasons or climate of the Southern colonies.
What is long growing seasons and very hot and humid?
This is a person who takes a long journey, usually a religious journey. In U.S. history, the people who sailed on the Mayflower are called this.
What is a pilgrim?
This war, which was fought in 1648, resulted in the Protestants becoming an accepted religion in Europe. But Catholics and Protestants would still fight over who had more power in the years following.
What is the Thirty Years War?
This is the first form of schooling in America. It would take place in a one room schoolhouse with only female teachers. Due to shortages in paper and difficulty of shipping books, students had to share supplies.
What is a dame school?
This was the main idea the Middle colonies were founded under. William Penn was a big proponent (fighter) for this idea.
What is religious freedom?
These were the main cash crops grown on Southern plantations. (3 answers)
What is rice, indigo, and tobacco?
This is an economic theory that believed a nations power came from a strong trade network and large gold and silver savings.
What is Mercantilism?
These are the three sources of political power at the time of colonization.
What is oppression, alliances, and conquering?
These two colonies are the first permanent colonies in New England. They were originally very strictly Puritan. (2 answers)
What is the Plymouth and Massachusetts Bay Colonies?
This is the nickname for the Middle colonies, due mainly to their large grain production, but they also had a large fishing industry.
What is "breadbasket colony"?
This is the political head in Viginia. They created laws such as the Bacon Laws, which allowed for term limits on specific positions.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This is a document created by the pilgrims who sailed to Plymouth on the Mayflower. This agreement formed their government and acts as a framework for our modern Constitution.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This was Portugal and Spain's main reasons for trying to find trade routes by sea. In Portugal, Henry the Navigator helped sail around Africa, and in Spain, Columbus would attempt to sail around the Pacific.
What is reaching India?
This war, fought between 1676-1677, started due to the Wampanoag killing one of their own for helping the English. The two groups would then conduct small raids on each other, before 1676 where the colonists shot their chief, ending the war.
What is King Philips War?
These are the two treaties that were signed in Pennsylvania with the Native group, the Lenni Lenape. The first treaty was signed by William Penn, promising friendship. The second was signed by Penn's sons following his death, and allowed colonists to take as much land as they could walk in a day and a half.
What are the Great Treaty and the Walking Treaty?
This is the Native group the colonists in Virginia and Maryland had several fight with, leading to the colonists enslaving this group for 20 years.
Who are the Powhatan?
This is a form of farming where almost all the food planted and harvested is used to feed the farmers family. This was a common form of farming in the New England colonies.
What is subsistence farming?
One reason for European colonialization was the Ottoman takeover of land trade routes to Asia, but this second reason was the cause for European countries to race for colonies.
What is a need for resources and land?
This war, fought in Massachusetts in the 1630's, was caused by the Niantic Pequot killing an English settler. 3 years later, two colonists would burn down their fort, leading to the Pequot to retaliate. They lost, and any Pequot who weren't killed were enslaved.
What is the Pequot War?
This is the description of the democratic traditions of the Middle colonies. (3 answers)
What is colonial assembly, election of council members, and 3-year term limits?
This is the location of the first English colony in North America. It would also be the first of the 13 colonies to use slavery as their main labor source.
What is Virginia/Jamestown?