Important People
Settling the colonies
Wars and Battles
Key Terms
Other Things to know
100
Queen Elizabeth gave this person the right to claim land in North America. He took up this effort with great energy and sent settlers to Roanoke Island twice.

Who is Sir Walter Raleigh.

100
The main reasons for settling this region of colonies were religious, political, and economic freedom.

What are the New England Colonies

100
The Royal English Navy had their first victory against this country, letting the world know that a new force was operating in the Atlantic Ocean

Spain (the Spanish Armada)

100

A military force made of ordinary citizens

what is a militia

100

The colony of Virgina was founded for what purpose?

Profits (to become wealthy)

200

This 27-year-old Captain forced settlers in Jamestown to work to save the colony. Additionally, he built ties with the local Powhatan people.

Who is John Smith

200

After becoming a center of shipping and trade to and from the Americas, this Dutch colony was taken by the English based on claims that John Cabot's explorations had given them the right to the land.

What is New York (New Netherland)

200

At the young age of eleven years old, this Nigerian boy and his sister were taken by kidnappers and sold into slavery. His autobiography gives a striking point of view of this experience.

Who is Olaudah Equiano

200
This treaty ended the French and Indian war and forced France to give Canada most of its lands east of the Mississippi to Great Britain. It marked the end of France as a power in North America

Treaty of Paris of 1763

200
The first successful English colony of Jamestown was established in this year.

1607

300

Throughout the First Great Awakening, this minister would travel the thirteen colonies giving loud and expressive sermons to large groups of people in order to restore faith and religion.

Who is George Whitefield
300

This colony was set up in 1733 for debtors and poor people to make a fresh start.

What is Georgia

300

English colonist began smuggling goods without government permission in response to these Acts (laws) that followed the theory of mercantilism.

What were the Navigation Acts
300

This movement began in Europe and spread the idea that knowledge, reason, and science could improve society. It promoted freedom of thought and expression

The Enlightenment

300

Advocating for uniting the colonies this delegate wrote the Albany Plan of Union for a united colonial government

Benjamin Franklin

400

After feeling that the government should not force people to worship a certain way, this minister was forced to leave Massachusetts. Along with Anne Hutchinson he established the colony of Rhode Island.

Who is Roger Williams

400

This group of Separatists, once called Puritans, were able to get land grants from the Virgina Company. They become known as ________ because they undertook a religious journey.

Who are the Pilgrams

400

Dissatisfied with how the government treated westerners, this Virginian attacked Native Americans on the frontier of the colony before marching to and burning down Jamestown.

Who was Nathanial Bacon (Bacon's Rebellion)

400

A system by which people elect delegates to make laws and conduct government

representative government

400

The Mohawk, Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, and Tuscarora tribes together made up this, the most powerful group of Native Americans in eastern North America

The Iroquois Confederacy

500
This wealthy English Quaker who received land in the middle colonies used the opportunity to develop the land as a "holy experiment" where he can put his Quaker ideals into practice.

William Penn, Pennsylvania

500

Fertile soil, warm climate, and wet coastal lowlands encouraged the growth of cash crops and the exponential growth of slavery in this region of colonies.

What are the Southern Colonies

500

The rivalry between these two nations grew to full scale war when colonists began to show interest in the Ohio River Valley.

What are England and France
500

The three-part route that sent raw materials from the colonies to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa and enslaved persons from Africa to the Americas.

Triangular Trade (the middle passage)

500

George Washington suffered a defeat at Fort Necessity after marching to this fort built by the French when they seized the land in western Pennsylvania

Fort Duquesne (doo-KAYN)