Included Maryland, Virginia, the Carolinas and Georgia.
What are the Southern Colonies?
100
These people left England to escape religious persecution.
Who were pilgrims?
100
This colony was captured without a shot being fired and was later renamed New York.
What is New Netherland?
100
This was a system of trade between the Americas, Britain and Africa.
What is Triangular Trade?
100
This Treaty ended the French & Indian war and also gave Britain control of most of Canada and the land east of the Mississippi, as well as Florida.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
200
This was the first "permanent" English settlement in the new world.
What is Jamestown?
200
These people wanted to "reform" or "clean up" the Anglican church.
Who are Puritans?
200
This colony was founded by one of New Jersey's proprietors as a safe haven for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
200
Each colony had one of these leaders. Some were appointed by the King, others by the proprietors and in Connecticut this person was elected by the people.
What is a governor?
200
Parliament passed this act, which required an official seal or marking whenever paper items were purchased, in order to tax the colonists to pay for the French & Indian war.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
300
John Rolfe married this daughter of the Powhatan leader.
Who is Pocahontas?
300
This Native American had at one time lived in Europe and taught the Pilgrims to fertilize the soil with fish remains.
Who is Squanto?
300
This Dutch man was the Director General of the colony New Netherland and its first major trading post, New Amsterdam.
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
300
A movement that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
300
Crispus Attucks was killed during this propagandist event in which British soldiers fired upon an unruly crowd of protestors.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
This skirmish of indentured servants fighting against the governer's policies ended with Jamestown being burned.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
400
The pilgrims signed this legal contract that stated they would have fair laws and protect the general good before landing at Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
This man founded Delaware in 1638.
Who was Peter Minuit?
400
This war was between France and Britain over who had control over the Ohio Valley and its valuable fur trade.
What is the French and Indian War?
400
Parliament passed an act which lowered the price of a popular item. The colonists feared it would ruin their businesses and held this festive function on the night of December 16, 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
500
The growing and harvesting of these three cash crops were labor intensive, requiring a cheap and easily obtained labor force.
What are rice, tobacco and indigo?
500
This college, the first in the colonies, was founded in 1636.
What is Harvard?
500
In return for passage and sometimes land these people filled the needs of a labor force in the middle colonies rather than slaves.
What are indentured servants?
500
This bill from Parliament got rid of King James II, took power from the king and gave more power to Parliament.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
500
In the spring of 1774 Parliament passed a set of these extreme acts hoping to regain control in the colonies. These acts only infuriated the colonists and hastened them to rebel.