People of Colonial America
Colonial Vocabulary
Colonies & Founding
Government & Events
Geography & Trade
100

He helped Jamestown survive at age 27

John Smith

100

A crop grown to sell for profit

Cash Crop

100

The first successful English settlement

Jamestown

100

The first legislature in the New World 

House of Burgesses

100

This colonial boundary separated Maryland and Pennsylvania 

The Mason-Dixon Line

200

She was banned from Massachusetts Bay for her religious views

Anne Hutchinson 

200
A 50-acre grant of land given to settlers 

Headright

200

The colony that split into North and South

Carolina

200

This 1689 document limited the ruler's power in England

The English Bill of Rights

200

A small farm that grows only enough for one family

Subsistence Farming

300

This Quaker founded Pennsylvania as a "Holy Experiment"

William Penn

300
A system where people elect representatives to make laws

Representative Government

300

Rhode Island was founded mainly for this reason

Religious Freedom

300

This 1763 law banned settlement west of the Appalachians

The Proclamation of 1763

300

The three main stops of the Triangular Trade

England, Americas, and Africa

400

He led a rebellion in Virginia against the colonial government in 1676

Nathanial Bacon

400

Rules that punished and controlled enslaved people

Slave Codes

400

This document created a government for Plymouth Colony 

The Mayflower Compact 

400

This event showed the Virginia government couldn't ignore the colonists' demands

Bacon's Rebellion

400

The term for bringing goods IN from another country

Import

500

He wrote about his life as an enslaved person after buying his freedom

Olaudah Equiano

500

The economic system where a country gains wealth by exporting more than it imports 

Mercantilism 

500

The colony founded as a home for debtors 

Georgia

500

These laws restricted colonial trade and made the colonists angry 

The Navigation Acts

500

The powerful alliance of Native American nations in the Northeast

Iroquois Confederacy