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100
These people signed contracts to work for a certain number of years in exchange for paid passage from England to the British colonies in America.
indentured servants
100
Group that valued education, and founded Harvard college for religious education.
Puritans
100
Most unhealthy colonial region due to many diseases that thrived in its warm, humid climate.
Middle (Chesapeake) Colonies
100
Region that had an economy based on fishing, whaling, ship building, timber, and shipping for trade
Northern (New England) Colonies
200
This man was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for disagreeing with the Puritan Church, and went to Rhode Island where he offered religious freedom to all.
Roger Williams
200
Who worked tobacco fields in the middle colonies before slaves replaced them?
Indentured servants
200
Colonial region made up of mostly Puritans, and economy was based on fishing, ship building, shipping, timber, and whaling. Soil was too rocky to grow many food crops.
Northern (New England) Colonies
200
Main source of the economy in the Middle Colonies
tobacco
200
Name for a large number of British citizens moving to the British colonies in America from 1620-1640. Most were Puritans from England that settled mostly in Massachusetts.
Great English Migration
300
This man saved the economy of Jamestown by developing high quality tobacco for sale.
John Rolfe
300
This group wanted to separate from the Church of England, and spit off to form different protestant churches.
Separatists
300
Colony north of Florida that was meant to create a buffer between Spanish and British colonies.
Georgia
300
Colonial region with a tobacco based economy
Middle (Chesapeake) Colonies
300
This word refers to a person who disagrees with the majority, especially with his/her political or religious leaders.
dissenter
400
This woman was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for hosting meetings in her home to discuss disagreements with the Puritan Church, and claimed God spoke directly to her.
Anne Hutchinson
400
Religious group that settled Massachusetts Bay Colony so they could have freedom of religion, but then denied religious freedom to its citizens.
Puritans
400
Early American colony settled by Puritans, with John Winthrop as governor. They saw themselves as a "Shining City Upon a Hill," (a moral example for other colonies.
Massachusetts Bay Colony
400
Name for the path of forced labor form Africa to the West Indies (Carribbean Islands)
Middle Passage
400
This system granted 50 acres of land to those who paid for the passage of each indentured servant from Britain to the colonies in America.
Headright System
500
This man led a group to protest against Governor Berkeley.
Nathaniel Bacon
500
This group was the first democratically elected government in the British colonies in America.
House of Burgesses
500
Early British colony in America that was considered a safe place for Catholics to settle.
Maryland
500
Company that transported slaves from western Africa to Carribean slave markets
Royal African Company