Colonial Regions
This colony was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English settlement.
What is Jamestown?
These laborers worked under contract for a set number of years.
Who are indentured servants?
This religious group settled in Massachusetts Bay and emphasized a theocratic society.
Who are the Puritans?
This was the first representative legislative assembly in British America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This conflict in Virginia was led by farmers angry at Governor Berkeley.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This region had small towns, a mixed economy, and emphasized education.
What is New England?
This event led to a shift from indentured servitude to African slavery.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
This colony was founded by Roger Williams for religious freedom.
What is Rhode Island?
These laws restricted colonial trade to benefit the mother country.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This uprising in South Carolina was one of the largest slave rebellions in the colonies.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
These colonies had diverse populations and economies including farming and trade.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This was the three-part trade system that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This 1730s–1740s movement emphasized emotional religious revival.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This term describes British policy of loosely enforcing trade laws.
What is salutary neglect?
This war between Puritans and Native Americans devastated New England towns.
What is King Philip’s War?
This colony was founded as a haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This leg of the triangular trade brought enslaved Africans to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This preacher was famous for “Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.”
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This compact, signed aboard a ship, established self-government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This 1680s event in England reduced monarchial power and increased Parliament's authority.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This economic system in the South relied on plantation agriculture.
What is the plantation system?
These laws controlled the behavior of enslaved people.
What are slave codes?
This religious movement challenged traditional authority and emphasized equality and personal piety.
What is evangelicalism?
This Enlightenment thinker influenced colonial views on government and natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
This policy aimed to integrate colonies into England’s mercantilist economy.
What is mercantilism?