Virginia and the Chesapeake
What joint-stock company held the charter for Jamestown?
The Virginia Company
What specific religious faction, seeking complete independence from the Church of England rather than reform of it, founded Plymouth Colony?
The Separatists
What Puritan minister was banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1635 for arguing that individual conscience was beyond the control of civil or church authority?
Roger Williams
What minister led a group of dissatisfied Boston Puritans into the Connecticut River Valley in 1636, founding the settlement of Hartford?
Thomas Hooker
What religious group, formally called the Religious Society of Friends, believed religious authority resided within each individual rather than in scripture or clergy?
Quakers
What English captain's leadership is credited with keeping the Jamestown settlement alive during its brutal first five years?
Captain John Smith
What document did Pilgrim passengers draft and sign in 1620, pledging to govern themselves by majority rule after landing outside their original charter's jurisdiction?
Mayflower Compact
What settlement tolerated Catholics, Quakers, and Jews and recognized Native American land rights?
Providence
What 1639 document, considered the first written constitution in American history, established a Connecticut legislature elected by popular vote and a governor chosen by that legislature?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639)
What proprietor personally crossed the Atlantic to supervise the founding of Philadelphia, unlike most colonial proprietors who governed remotely from England?
William Penn
What English settler, married to Pocahontas, cultivated a strain of tobacco that turned Jamestown into a profitable colony?
John Rolfe
What colony did the Separatists establish in 1620 after their ship missed its intended destination of Virginia?
Plymouth Colony
What Puritan dissenter was banished from Massachusetts Bay in 1638 for teaching that salvation came through faith alone, without adherence to moral law?
Anne Hutchinson
What representative assembly, established in 1619 and dominated by elite planters, is considered the first legislative body in colonial America?
Virginia House of Burgesses
What nickname is given to Pennsylvania, reflecting its founder's ambitious blend of religious idealism and colonial governance?
Holy Experiment
What term describes the Virginia and Maryland region collectively?
The Chesapeake colonies
What colony did John Winthrop and roughly 1,000 Puritans found in 1630, centered on the settlement of Boston?
Massachusetts Bay Colony
What specific theological doctrine holds that individuals who receive salvation through faith alone are not bound by traditional moral law?
Antinomianism
What proprietor, the second Lord Baltimore, sought to make Maryland a haven for fellow Catholics facing persecution in England?
Cecil Calvert
What 1701 document guaranteed freedom of worship for all residents and unrestricted immigration into Pennsylvania?
Charter of Liberties (1701)
Jamestown began as a corporate colony under private charter but transitioned to a different colonial status in 1624. What type of colony did Virginia become?
A royal colony
What name is given to the wave of roughly 15,000 English settlers who migrated to Massachusetts between 1630 and 1640 amid religious and political conflict in England?
Great Migration
What colony formed in 1644 when Providence and Portsmouth merged under a single parliamentary charter, becoming known as a refuge for diverse beliefs?
Rhode Island
What 1649 Maryland law granted religious freedom to all Christians while still mandating death for anyone who denied the divinity of Jesus?
Act of Toleration
What philanthropist founded Georgia in 1733 and initially banned both rum and slavery in the new colony?
James Oglethorpe