Location, Location, Location
This colonial region was home to the Pilgrims and Puritans.
What was New England?
This man was a geek about talking about the City on a Hill. Helped to found one even!
Who was John Winthrop, governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
These Europeans replaced the Dutch in New Amsterdam.
Who were the English?
Native peoples were welcomed in the early years of this Quaker colony.
What was Pennsylvania?
This 1676 Virginia uprising pitted struggling tobacco farmers against his aristocratic rule.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
This specific colony was a primary location for early Catholics.
What was Maryland?
This freak believed that the "inner light" of God made all people equal.
Who was William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania?
These Europeans were numerous, expansive, and lived amongst Native peoples.
Who were the Spanish?
This was the main reason for the decline of the Native population in the Americas during the contact period.
What was disease?
New England's economy was diversified rather than reliant on one crop, a direct result of these two difficult geographic features of its land and waterways.
What was rocky soil and unnavigable rivers?
This religious group was primarily concentrated in Pennsylvania.
Who were the Quakers?
This freak was charged with heresy after claiming divine inspiration and stating that most Puritan ministers lacked the Holy Spirit.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
These Europeans greatly increased in numbers over time and mainly were interested in agriculture.
Who were the English?
The Wampanoags welcomed this group in New England.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Despite having far fewer 17th-century immigrants, this northern region's population grew to 91,000 by 1700, surpassing its southern counterpart.
What was New England?
This religious group was heavily concentrated in the Southern colonies, including Virginia and the Carolinas.
Who were the Anglicans?
This freak argued that the government shouldn't punish people for religious beliefs and insisted on paying Native Americans for their land.
Who was Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island?
These Europeans had a small population, but ranged widely throughout North America, engaging in the fur trade with Native Americans.
Who were the French?
The Narragansetts of New England welcomed this man after his exile from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who was Roger Williams?
Puritans believed in this doctrine stating that God has already determined who will be saved and who will be damned.
What was predestination?
After being banished from the Massachusetts colony in 1636, Roger Williams went on to found this new colony.
What was Rhode Island?
The grave of this geeky Pilgrim leader and Governor of Plymouth Colony includes the warning: "What our forefathers with so much difficulty Secured do not basely relinquish."
Who was William Bradford?
These Europeans had a low population in North America, were very transactional with Native peoples, and kept to themselves.
Who were the Dutch?
This word means that Native peoples and Europeans practiced an equal exchange during the contact period.
What was reciprocity?
Rather than a hierarchy of bishops or popes, Puritans practiced this system where individual churches maintain local control.
What was congregationalism?