New England Colonies
These are the 4 New England colonies.
What are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut?
William Penn founded this colony.
What is Pennsylvania?
Established in Virginia, this was the first representative government in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
An economic policy that European nations followed in the 17th and 18th centuries in which they heavily regulated trade, sought to maximize imports over exports, and acquired colonies to exploit for raw materials.
What is mercantilism?
These were the primary crops grown in South Carolina.
What is rice/indigo?
This person founded Rhode Island, advocated religious freedom, and advocated purchasing land from Indians rather than taking it through warfare.
Who is Roger Williams?
New York was founded in 1664 when the Duke of York took over this prosperous Dutch colony.
What is New Amsterdam?
This colony was the first proprietary colony and it was granted to George Calvert in 1632.
What is Maryland?
A colonial trading practice that involved ships making multiple journeys between New England, Africa, and the Caribbean.
What is Triangular Trade?
This was the primary crop grown in 17th and 18th century Virginia and Maryland.
What is tobacco?
This group of people came to North America because they wanted to break away from the Church of England. They founded Plymouth colony.
Who are the Separatists/Pilgrims?
This radical religious group helped first settle Pennsylvania.
Who were the Quakers?
The first law regarded freedom of religion was passed in Maryland and it granted all Christians the right to freely practice their religion.
What was the Act of Toleration?
These English laws forced the 13 colonies to sell specific goods only to England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
The grueling journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic were as many as 1.5 million died from the brutal conditions.
What is the Middle Passage?
This group of people wanted to reform the Church of England, but came to North America after being persecuted. They founded Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who are the Puritans?
These are the 4 Middle Colonies.
What are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware?
This revolt in VA involved indentured servants, landless farmers, and free people of color trying to sieze western lands from Indians and turning against the colonial government who tried to stop them.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
An intellectual movement that saw people develop new insights about government and the relationship between rulers and the governed.
What is the Enlightenment?
The largest slave insurrection in colonial North America. Resulted in the passage of new slave codes.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
This was the last colony founded in New England- a royal colony created by Charles II who took land away from the Massachusetts Bay colony in 1679.
What is New Hampshire?
New Jersey was originally two colonies known as this and this.
What are East New Jersey and West New Jersey?
This colony was founded in 1732 to be a buffer against Spanish Florida and as a place for debtors to start a new life.
What is Georgia?
This early 18th century movement saw a shared experience amongst the colonies that saw the rise of new Christian denominations in colonial North America.
What was the Great Awakening?
This was the last major Indian resistance to English colonization in New England.
What is King Philip's War?