Colonial Firsts
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America
Jamestown (1607)
So was the most important person that helped Jamestown both in the starving time and the in the period after the beginning of tobacco exports.
Pocahontas
What was the name given to the journey of enslaved people from Africa to the Spanish and English Colonies?
Middle Passage
What were the 3 major countries that explored North America
France, Netherlands and England
What is the name of the Plymouth colony's oath of self-government
Mayflower Compact
The Pilgrims were the first Puritans to land in New England. Were they separating or non-separating Calvinists?
Separating
Who brought tobacco to the Virginia colony
John Rolfe
What two things did the southern colonies have that allowed for plantation agriculture to succeed
fertile soil; temperate weather
In the early stages of exploration, what was the route that explorers were looking for along the northern waters of North America.
Northwest Passage
Who was murdered by the Wampanoag in 1675?
John Sassamon
This colony that first passed a law establishing freedom of religious practice
Maryland
Who founded the colony that created a refuge for Catholics?
Lord Baltimore
A region of the colonies with many different types of economic activity is known as a _________ economy?
diverse
What is the name of the land grants offere as incentives of those who settled Virginia in the early years
Headrights
What kind of society did the Puritans of Massachusetts want to create?
A model Christian society
This colony was the first to create a written constitution?
Connecticut
Which English king defeated the Dutch and took the New Amsterdam colony in 1664?
Charles II
What is the name of the laws that regulated trade between England and her colonies?
Navigation Acts
This colony was founded as a refuge for Quakers
Pennsylvania
What is the greatest city in the world?
New York City
This was the first and only colony founded as a debtors prison?
Georgia
This was the Native America who first aided the Plymouth settlers by providing food and acting as a translator with local tribes
Squanto or Samoset
What was the most import IMPORT to the colonies from the Caribbean?
Sugar, molasses.
Name of the native tribe that lived near the colonists in Jamestown
What is the name of the tribe that escalted King Philips War by covertly participating in raids against the colonists?
Narangansett