These people are the founders of Massachusetts and came to America to escape religious freedom.
Who are the Pilgrims and Puritans?
100
Nickname given to the Middle colonies.
What is the Breadbasket colonies?
100
Date that Jamestown was founded.
What is 1607?
100
Document written by the Pilgrims that established representative government in Massachusetts.
What is the Mayflower Compact.
100
Economic system where the mother country has colonies to increase their wealth.
What is mercantilism?
200
This colony was founded when Roger Williams was forced to leave Massachusetts because he had different beliefs than the Puritans?
What is Rhode Island?
200
Colony that was founded by the Dutch and captured by the British in 1664.
What is New York?
200
Tobacco, Rice, Indigo
What cash crops were grown in the south?
200
King John was forced to sign this document in 1215 and it severely limited his powers.
What is Magna Carta?
200
Trade routes established during the colonial era to ensure that England benefitted off of the trade of her colonies.
What were the triangular trade routes?
300
This colony was founded by Thomas Hooker who wished for more limitations on the governors power.
What is Connecticut?
300
Founded as a refuge for Quakers to practice their religion freely.
What is Pennyslvania?
300
This colony was founded as a refuge for Roman Catholics to Practice their religion freely.
What is Maryland?
300
This document was the first written counstitution in North America.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
300
Religious Movement that called people in the colonies to do charitable work and to question authority when necessary.
What is Great Awakenings?
400
The ecomomy of the New England colonies was based off of these products.
What were lumber or timber, shipbuilding, fishing, and whaleing?
400
Economy of the Middle colonies was based on these products.
What is wheats, grains, furs, and whaling?
400
This colony was founded as a place for debtors to start their lives over and to be a military buffer to protect the colonies from the Spanish in Florida.
What is Georgia?
400
Freedom of speech was gained by the English in this 1688 Document signed by William and Mary.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
400
The part of the triangular trade route where the slaves were imported to the colonies.
What is the Middle Passage?
500
Reason that the majority of the New Colonies were founded.
What is escaping religious persecution?
500
With the exception of Pennyslvania, all the middle colonies were founded for what reason.
What is trade?
500
The House of Burgessess, or the colonie's first representative assembly was located here.
What is Virginia?
500
Freedom of Press was gained after the trial of this New York News paperman.
What is the John Peter Zenger trial.
500
Benjamin Franklin proposed this plan to unite the colonies during the French and Indian War.