The Southern Colonies
the first permanent English settlement in North America
What was Jamestown?
This religious group wanted to purify, or reform, the Church of England, the Anglican church.
Who were the Puritans?
This is the term for crops that are always needed, like wheat.
What are staple crops?
This 2-word vocabulary term is where people talked about and decided on issues of local interest, such as paying for schools.
What were town meetings?
the equivalent of Snapchat, Twitter, or email during colonial days when trouble was stirring between the colonists and British
What were Committees of Correspondence?
Pocahontas married this man, who introduced tobacco to England.
Who was John Rolfe?
people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country
Who are immigrants?
Peter Stuyvesant started a settlement called New Netherland, which was surrendered to the English, and became this colony.
What was New York?
This treaty ended the French and Indian War.
What was the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
A "massacre" where 5 colonists were killed by British soldiers occurred in Boston in this New England colony.
What is Massachusetts?
Pocahontas saved his life.
Who was John Smith?
This agreement was signed on a ship that landed in a wrong destination, and the document tried to ensure fair laws to protect the general good.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
This Quaker established the colonies of New Jersey and Pennsylvania.
Who was William Penn?
Olaudah Equiano, was a former slave who worked to end slavery. He was born in this continent.
What was Africa?
After the French and Indian War, many colonists were very upset about taxation without __________.
What is representation?
Before slavery happened in English colonies, these people agreed to a contract where they worked for 4 - 7 years in exchange for someone paying for their journey to America.
Who were indentured servants?
This woman was basically kicked out of Massachusetts Bay, and helped form the colony of _________ ____________.
What is Rhode Island?
members of the Society of Friends
Who were Quakers?
a system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa
(Think 3.)
What was triangular trade?
This American revolutionary from Massachusetts led the agitation leading to the Boston Tea Party, and later signed the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Samuel Adams?
The king of England granted a charter to James Oglethorpe to develop this colony, hoping it would be a shield to other colonies from the Spanish.
What was Georgia?
The New England colonies are made up of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and this colony, the smallest of all 13.
What is Rhode Island?
This city, set up by William Penn, was the most important city in Pennsylvania in colonial days.
What was Philadelphia?
This document reduced the powers of the English monarch, king or queen.
What was the English Bill of Rights?
These acts were the British response to the Boston Tea Party.
What were the Intolerable Acts?