Early Colonies
When fire destroyed much of Jamestown in 1698, where was the colony’s capital moved?
Williamsburg
In September 1620, the Pilgrims set sail from Plymouth, England, in a ship named what?
The Mayflower
Most of the settlers who arrived in New England were searching for what?
Religious Freedom
William Penn was a member of what religious group?
Quaker
The governor of the colony, Peter Minuit, bought what from the Indians?
Manhattan
Squanto showed the settlers how to do what?
plant corn and squash
Governor Winthrop hoped that Massachusetts would be what kind of city to bear witness to the world?
“a city upon a hill”
Penn called his new land Sylvania, Latin for woodland, but the king called it what?
Pennsylvania
In Jamestown, more than half the original colonists died of what? (Give at least 2 of 3)
scurvy, fever, or exposure in the colony’s first three months
The new governor, William Bradford, called for a celebration of what?
thanksgiving to God
Williams said that the government’s only purpose is to do what?
protect people’s bodies and goods from harm
After landing and exploring their surroundings, the Pilgrims began to build their colony that they named what?
Plymouth
Proprietary colonies were those that the king gave to whom?
individuals or groups
Instead of being just north of Jamestown, the Pilgrims were off Cape Cod in what is today which state?
Massachusetts
What document was the first written constitution drawn up in America?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Indigo, a plant from which a popular blue dye could be made, became a second cash crop for which colony?
South Carolina
To pay for colonies, some English investors formed what type of companies?
joint-stock companies
The Mayflower Compact provided for what?
the first self-government in the New World
In 1649, lawmakers passed what act that guaranteed religious freedom to all who believed in the Trinity?
the Act of Tolerance
Parliament wanted to use the land south of the Carolinas as a buffer zone to do what?
keep the Spanish at a distance