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A look at the colonies
Education
Slavery
100

After being delayed for three years in England due to Spanish ships, he returned to Roanoke to find the colony abandoned.

John White

100

A document that granted the right to form a colony

Charter

100

This was first successful English colony in North America

Jamestown

100

These were one of the first colleges to be created in America

Harvard / Yale

100

This part of the triangular trade route was the most deadliest

The middle passage

200
Was the founder of Pennsylvania and designer of the "City of Brotherly Love".

William Penn

200

A document signed on a ship by pilgrims that set up a orderly government.

Mayflower Compact

200

This colony was well known for its pacifist beliefs

Pennsylvania

200

This group of people placed a high value on education

The puritans

200

This is the name of the pathway of acquiring slaves and transporting them to the Americas.

The Triangular Trade Route

300

This slave woman was the first African American published poet.

Phillis Wheatley

300

A list of fundamental laws to support a government

Constitution

300

In northern colonies, families provided food by this style of farming.

Subsistence farming

300

The puritans main goal for education

To enable their children to read the bible.

300

This part of Africa was the main place for acquiring slaves

West Africa

400

This preacher focused on the return of sincere Christianity. He was a notable figure of the Great Awakening.

Jonathan Edwards

400

A 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way.

Headright

400

These colonies made the most money from farming and agriculture

Southern colonies

400

The purpose for which colleges in the colonies were created.

To train ministers/pastors/preachers
400

These people sold slaves to European colonists

African slave traders

500

This man was responsible for establishing a new church of England that would allow for his divorce and marrying of multiple wives.

King Henry VIII

500

1 Timothy 6:10 explains that this is the root of all evil.

The love of money

500

These people held the sole right to vote in colonial america

White male landowners

500

Public schools were first created by this group of people

The Puritans

500

This was the motivation behind purchasing and treating slaves unjustly.

Greed/love of money