New England
Vocab
Miscellaneous
Colonies
Colonies II
100

The City Upon a Hill.

What is Boston?

100

Spanish explorers/conquerors in the Americas.

Who were conquistadors?

100

Document signed by the Pilgrims where they agreed to create laws and follow them.

What was the Mayflower Compact?

100

First college in the colonies.

What was Harvard?

100

Founder of Maryland colony.

Who was Lord Baltimore?

200

Kicked out of Mass Bay for preaching as a woman and her antinomian views.

Who was Anne Hutchinson?

200

Right to vote.

What is franchise?

200

The other term for the Church of England.

What is the Anglican Church?

200

Major crop in South Carolina.

What was rice?

200

Colonial regions with the most religious and ethnic diversity.

What were the Middle Colonies?

300

Created in 1686 to bolster the colonial defense against Indians and tying the colonies closer to Britain by enforcing the hated Navigation Acts.

What was the Dominion of New England?

300

People who agreed to work for someone else for 4-7 years in return for passage to the colonies.

Who were indentured servants?

300

Term for the slave trade.

What was the triangular trade?

300

Major crop in North Carolina.

What was tobacco?

300

Led a rebellion of indentured servants in VA in 1676?

Who was Nathaniel Bacon?

400

Weak alliance formed in 1643 among the four colonies Puritan colonies. 

What was the New England Confederation?

400

If you sponsored an indentured servant’s passage to America, you earned the right to 50 acres land.

What was the headright system?

400

Term for the voyage of slaves across the Atlantic.

What was the Middle Passage?

400

Founded as a colony for English debtors.

What is Georgia?

400

Leader of the Natives in the Jamestown area in 1607.

Who was Powhatan?

500

Granted partial membership to those not yet converted to the Congregational Churches.

What was the Half-Way Covenant?

500

Preachers scolded parishioners for their waning piety in hope to improve faith in these sermons.

What were jeremiads?

500

Island where slave codes were adopted.

What was Barbados?

500

Founded as a colony for English Catholics.

What was Maryland?

500

Founder of Georgia colony.

Who was James Oglethorpe?