Vocab
This word is a representative in government, particularly in Jamestown
What is a burgess?
Who is known for funding the first Englishmen's voyage to America landing in Roanoke?
Who is Sir Walter Raleigh
What did Peter Minuit buy from Natives, founding what colony?
What is Manhattan and New Amsterdam?
What region of North America did Puritans settle in?
What is Massachusetts Bay?
Where did Puritans discuss and vote on local and church issues?
What are town meetings?
What term refers to an economic system where the government has little influence over the economy, also known as laissez faire
Which native is credited with helping pilgrims food supply by giving and teaching how to grow seeds of corn, beans, and pumpkins?
Who is Squanto?
What was the first French settlement in North America?
What is Port Royal?
Where could English citizens go to start their life over if they had too much debt?
What is Georgia?
Why did New England colonies focus on manufacturing goods and shipbuilding?
What is difficult land with rocky soil allowed minimal farming and miles of coastline/raw materials
What is the term given to a colony run by a single person or group of people who pay rent to the king once a year?
What is a proprietary colony?
Who founded Pennsylvania and what religious group were they part of?
What pushed Europeans to begin settling in North America?
The Protestant Reformation, religious persecution
What 3 groups left England to come to America for religious reasons?
Who are the Pilgrims, Puritans, and Quakers
What kind of crop was the main focus of the middle colonies, giving the colonies what nickname?
What is wheat and "breadbasket colonies"
Which religious group wanted to separate from the Church of England?
Who are the Pilgrims?
What son followed in his father's footsteps and became the proprietor of Maryland?
What is Roanoke?
Who was the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam who surrendered the colony to the British?
Who is Peter Stuyvesant?
In what region of the south did large plantations flourish?
What is the tidewater region?
What system gave free land to anyone that came to America and more land for each person they brought including a wife, children, or servants
What is the headright system?
Which Puritan is known for having a problem with Puritan leadership and left Massachusetts to form Hartford Connecticut?
The cultivation of what crop transformed Jamestown into a profitable colony?
What is tobacco?
What two types of colonies did New Jersey become for a period of time under the king?
What is a proprietary and royal colony?
What early American rebellion led to what law that stated Africans were not humans but property?