1st English Settlements
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Developments and Processes
Events
People
Double Jeopardy
100

This lost colony was established by Sir Walter Raleigh and James White

Roanoke

100

The religious group that came to America from England seeking religious freedom and settled in the New England colonies (2 possible answers)

Puritans

Separatists

100

The founder of Pennsylvania, William Penn, created a colony to protect what religious group?

Quakers

100

This type of worker generally sold their labor in exchange for passage across the Atlantic for typically 4-7 Years

Indentured servant

100

a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition that spread to the colonies through transatlantic print culture

The Enlightenment

100

This event in 1692 was caused by a challenge to Puritan New Englands Traditions and norms and emphasized paranoia between religious denominations and often targeted marginalized individuals

Salem Witch Trials

100

This was a uprising led by small farmers and white settlers in Virginia's western frontier.  They were responding to attacks from Native Americans and political favoritism toward plantation owners.

Bacon's Rebellion

100

These acts were passed in the Maryland colonial assembly in 1649, it was the first law in the British North American colonies to protect religious freedom

Acts of Toleration 

Act Concerning Religion

Maryland Toleration Act

200

Founded by Separatists in 1620, this settlement became the first permanent English colony in New England.

Plymouth

200

These local political institutions gave New England property-owning men greater participation in government than was common in the plantation South.

Town Meetings

200

Known as the “breadbasket colonies,” the Middle Colonies developed an economy centered on producing these types of crops.

cereal grains (wheat, barley, and rye)

200

This system encouraged Chesapeake immigration by granting land to colonists who paid the passage of new settlers.

headright system

200

These slaves codes came from the carribean in 1661 and became the basis for slaves codes in the British North American Colonies

Barbados Slave Codes

200

1680 revolt against the Spanish, in the Southwestern part of the Now United States, that arose over the Spanish limiting Native religious practices

Pope's Revolt

200

This person was the Author of Poor Richard's Almanac

Benjamin Franklin

200

This 1688–1689 event in England removed James II from power and helped inspire colonists to overthrow the Dominion of New England.

The Glorious Revolution

300

King James IV gave the Virginia Company to establish this colony in 1607.

Jamestown

300

This person was a puritan and helped establish the city of Boston in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630

John Winthrop

300

The Dutch originally settled in New York to trade what with the American Indians?

Furs

300

The combination of property requirements for voting, dispersed plantations, and control of county governments allowed this group to dominate Southern colonial politics.

wealthy planter elites

300

This movement a series of religious revivals in the American colonies that emphasized personal faith, challenged traditional authority, and is one of the first experiences in all of the colonial regions


The First Great Awakening

300

Freedom of the Press was expanded in the English colonies under this Trial

Zenger Trial

300

Name one of the two famous preachers from the Great Awakening

George Whitefield or Johnathan Edwards

300

This settlement, located in present-day Delaware, served as the main settlement and capital of New Sweden.

Fort Christina

400

What religious group initially settled in Maryland?

Roman Catholics or Catholics

400

This colony was founded in 1630 by Puritans led by John Winthrop, who hoped to create a model Christian society.

Massachusetts Bay Colony

400

These two Puritan dissenters challenged religious authority in Massachusetts Bay and were forced to leave the colony.

Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson

400

Main Cash Crop from Virginia vs South Carolina

Tobacco - Virginia

Rice - South Carolina

400

The process that involed exporting raw materials from the Americas to Europe, Europe is then exporting manufactured goods and delivering them to the Americas and Africa, Africa is also exporting slaves to the Americas

Triangular Trade

400

This violent conflict was in response to encroachments made by European settlers on Native American lands.  Ironically, one of the tribes fighting the Europeans was the once friendly Wampanoag tribe.

King Philip's War or Metacom's War

400

Chief of the Wampanoag who created a coalition of native tribes with his own tribe to fight against the British Colonists

Metacom or King Philip

400

This phrase originates from John Winthrop's 1630 sermon, symbolizing a community set as a moral example for the world

City Upon a Hill

500

Established in 1619, this institution gave Virginia property-owning colonists an early form of representative government.

House of Burgesses

500

This 1636 conflict between New England colonists and a Native nation demonstrated how competition over land contributed to increasingly violent Native-colonial relations.

Pequot War

500

Name of the settlement originally settled by the Dutch

New Amsterdam

500

The expiration of this organization’s monopoly in 1698 expanded English merchants’ participation in the Atlantic slave trade, contributing to increased African slavery in the colonies.

Royal African Company

500

The group of British North American colonies allied themselves together in response to Native Americans, runaway servants, and boundary disputes from 1643-1684 until it was disbanded with the Dominion of New England

New England Confederation

500

This tribe had mixed relations with the Jamestown settlers which eventually led to two short wars, one in 1609-1614 and the other in 1622-1626.

Powhatans

500

This person was granted the charter for the Maryland colony by King Charles I in 1632

Lord Baltimore