Vocab
Colonies
People
Religion
Extra
100

Corporations where investors could pool their money and profits/losses were split according to the number of shares.

joint-stock company

100

Religious colony founded by two groups of pilgrims - the Separatists and the Puritans. 

Massachusetts

100

Wampanoag Indian who spoke English and taught the pilgrims at Plymouth how grow food, hunt, and trade with the Indians.

Squanto

100

Members of the Anglican church who hoped to purify it of Roman Catholic practices.

Puritans

100

TRUE or FALSE 

Pennsylvania did NOT allow religious freedom in their colony for anyone but Quakers. 

FALSE

200

People who are traveling primarily for a religious purpose. 

pilgrims
200

Founded by Henry Hudson for the Dutch in 1609, but eventually taken back by the English and renamed. 

New York

200

First elected leader Plymouth who led them well, eventually calling for a feast of thankfulness to celebrate the first year.

William Bradford

200

A group that wanted to separate themselves from the Anglican Church.

Separatists

200
GIVE ONE

Name one of the three reasons New Jersey appealed to settlers. 

1) Cheap land

2) Religious freedom

3) Self-government

300

Economic system that measured wealth by how much gold and silver a nation possessed. 

mercantilism
300

Started as a joint-stock company colony, but was taken over by the king and grew tobacco as its primary cash crop. 

Virginia
300

Puritan pastor who was kicked out of Massachusetts for disagreeing with the Puritan beliefs and would buy land from the Indians to create Providence colony.

Rodger Williams

300

People who “trembled at the word of the Lord”, believed all were equal and all possessed the “inner light” telling them God’s will - not the Bible.

Quakers

300

TRUE or FALSE

New Hampshire formed out of a need for more space and received a royal charter from the King. 

TRUE

400

Colonies given by the king to individuals and groups. 

proprietary colonies

400

Originally gifted to eight noblemen by King Charles, they named this colony and its main city, Charleston, after the King, but would split in two in 1712. 

North and South Carolina
400

Rich Quaker who was gifted land in the new world by King Charles II and would call it Sylvania which is Latin for “woodland”. 

William Penn

400

Granted religious freedom to all who believed in the Trinity (Father, Son, and Holy Spirit).

Act of Toleration

400

GIVE ONE

Name one of the reasons the pilgrims at Plymouth were successful. 

1) Not afraid to work

2) Had their families

3) Leaned on their faith

500

The first written Constitution in America. 

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

500

Began as a proprietary colony because the King owed a rich Quaker family money.

Pennsylvania

500

James, brother of King Charles the II who would rename “New Amsterdam”.

Duke of York
500

Rodgers promoted this idea that the Church and the government should not be the same and should not control one another. 

Separation of Church and State

500

TRUE or FALSE

Cotton was one of the major cash crops of the Carolinas. 

FALSE