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Vocabulary
Roanoke & Jamestown
The 13 Colonies
Great Awakening
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This is the name for a list of a government's fundamental laws

constitution

100
This colony mysteriously disappeared in 1590

Roanoke

100
This natural resource made New England a good place to build mills

water, rivers

100
In the 1730s and 40s, a religious revival swept through the colonies. This was called the

Great Awakening

100

John Hooker founded this New England Colony

Connecticut

200

People who refuse to fight in wars are called

pacifists
200

The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising

tobacco
200

The Massachusetts Bay Company was granted a charter to establish a colony north of

Plymouth

200

Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called

Separatists

200

Lord John Berkeley was one of the leaders, or proprietors, of this Middle Colony.

New Jersey

300

This is the name for the three-part route that traded enslaved people to the Americas

triangular trade

300

The Virginia Company gave colonists the right to take part in their own government. The legislative assembly for Jamestown was called the 

House of Burgesses
300

This is how most people in the colonies made a living

farming

300

What was the impact of the Great Awakening on people in the colonies?

It inspired religious freedom and led to the formation of new churches

300

Despite their differences, most colonists believed that governments should: 

respect the rights of their citizens

400

This is the name of a company in which investors bought shares, or part ownership

joint-stock company

400

This was another name for a land grant, given to settlers who paid their way into the Virginia colony.

headright

400

This colony was named after William Penn and means "Penn's Woods"

Pennsylvania

400

The Quakers were persecuted in England for this reason

they were pacifists who refused to fight in the King's wars. 
400

William Berkeley was the governor of this Southern Colony.

Virginia

500

Merchants who wanted to start a colony in the Americas could ask the King for this, which granted them the right to form one. 

a charter

500

Virginia colonist John Rolfe improved relations with the Powhatan Indians after he married the chief's daughter, named this

Pocahontas

500

These were the five Southern Colonies

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia

500

This was one of the most well-known preachers during the Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards or George Whitefield

500

this is the name of the type of farming that can only feed a family

subsistence farming