Government
The form of government in which voters elect people to make laws for them.
What is representative government?
This was the primary reason that the New England Colonies were established.
What is religious freedom?
The Middle Colonies.
What are New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania?
This is the primary reason why the Southern Colonies were established.
What was to make money?
The first permanent English colony and the year it was established.
What is Jamestown, Virginia, in 1607?
The name of the Native American princess who saved Commander John Smith's life in Jamestown.
Who was Pocahontas?
A person who takes a religious journey.
What is a pilgrim?
The type of government that the United States has.
What are Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire?
He started the colony of Pennsylvania to give religious and governmental freedom to colonists. He was a Quaker and got along very well with all people, including the Native Americans.
Who was William Penn?
The Southern Colonies.
What are Virginia, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maryland?
The name of the boat that the Pilgrims sailed in.
What was the Mayflower?
The founder of Rhode Island. He wanted to give religious freedom to colonists away from the Puritans.
Who was Roger Williams?
What is pilgrimage called in Islam?
The Hajj.
What is a bill of rights?
The first New England colony and its year of establishment.
What was the Plymouth Colony in 1620?
The capital of Pennsylvania. Its name means "The City of Brotherly Love." It was the first capital of the United States.
What is Philadelphia?
A frontier region extending through several colonies, from Pennsylvania to Georgia. Many non-English people, such as Germans migrated here.
What was the backcountry?
The first English colony in North America that mysteriously disappeared in 1590.
What was the Colony of Roanoke?
The founder of Pennsylvania. He was given his colony because of debt the King of England owed him.
Who was William Penn?
Muslims are required to make a pilgrimage at least once in their lifetime to this city.
What is Mecca?
This was given to English colonists, which allowed them to exist and self-govern.
What is a charter colony?
The group of people who established the Plymouth Colony.
Who were the Pilgrims?
An assembly of townspeople that decides local issues.
To increase in amount over time?
What is accumulate?
A document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company.
What is a charter?
The military commander who took control of the Colony of Jamestown, after the men made such a mess of it and almost starved to death.
Who was Commander John Smith?
Catholics try to make a pilgrimage to this place at least once in their lifetimes.
What is Rome/The Vatican/St. Peter's?
The first document in which American colonists claimed a right to govern themselves.
What is The Mayflower Compact?
The group of people who established the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who were the Puritans?
The founder of New Hampshire.
Who was John Wheelright?
A series of hearings and executions of people in Massachusetts, by the Puritans, between the years 1692 and 1693. The people being victimized were mainly unmarried women and widows.
What were the Salem Witch Trials?
This Native American saved the Pilgrims at the Plymouth Colony. They celebrated the first Thanksgiving after his help in surviving one year in the harsh conditions
Who was Squanto?
This was the religion of William Penn. It teaches pacifism (never to use violence), never to pledge allegiance to an earthly government or established religion, and to dedicate your life only to God.
What is Quakerism?
Colonists were controlled directly by the monarchy (the king) with no authority to self-govern.
What is a royal colony?
A group of religious extremists, bordering on a cult. You had to worship the way they wanted you to, or leave or be killed. They left England because they wanted to "purify" it.
Who was Thomas Hooker?
Recognition that other people have the right to different opinions.
What is toleration?
The name of the leader of the native americans who decided to attack, then help, then attack again the Jamestown Colony.
Who was Chief Powhatan?
These people were Separatists from the Church of England and were persecuted for their religion. This is the reason why they came to America.
Who were The Pilgrims?
Issued in England in 1689, this guaranteed the powers of Parliament and the basic rights of English citizens. It gave such things as freedom of speech and prevented standing armies from existing in the nation.
What is the English Bill of Rights of 1689?
The capital city of The Massachusetts Bay Colony, which became the largest city in the state, and where the Revolutionary War began.
What is Boston?
The chief of the Wampanoag, who found the New England colonists, he had a native name and an English name.
Who was Metacom or King Phillip?
A Boston woman who enraged the Puritans. Instead of killing her, they kicked her out of Massachusetts. She founded her own colony on an Island off of Rhode Island.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
The leader of The Puritians in The Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who was John Winthrop?