The First Colonies
Movement of over 40,000 Puritans to New England
What is the Great Migration?
British Law asserting control over the colonies after repealing the Stamp Act
What is the Declaratory Act?
These were the staple crops of the Middle Colonies.
What are wheat, oats, and barley?
Founded by Lord Baltimore as a safe haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
Closed the Port of Boston until damages from the Boston Tea Party were paid.
What is the Boston Port Act?
This was the first permanent English settlement in America
What is Jamestown?
This man founded Georgia in 1732.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
This ship carried the Pilgrims to North America.
What is the Mayflower?
The journey of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
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In this year was Jamestown founded.
What is 1607?
These 3 crops were the main cash crops of the Southern Colonies.
What is Tobacco, Indigo, and Rice?
Made to establish fair laws for the good of the colony. This helped the pilgrims in governing their new colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This war was fought over the Ohio Valley in North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
This prevented colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
This tribe helped the Jamestown settlers survive during their early struggles
Who are the Powhatan?
This law made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians in Maryland.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
This Native American helped the Pilgrims survive at Plymouth.
Who is Squanto?
This treaty ended the French and Indian War.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Colonists believed this tax violated their rights since they had no representation in Parliament. This spawned the phrase No Taxation with No Representation.
What is the Stamp Act?
This conflict revealed tensions between poor colonists and the colonial government in Virginia.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Because the south had a better this for growing crops, slavery became more important in the Southern Colonies than in New England
What is climate?
This university was founded in 1636 in New England.
What is Harvard?
The southern colonies relied on cash crops, slavery, and plantations for their economy. The Northern or New England Colonies focused on these three industries.
What are shipbuilding, trade, and fishing?
The British Parliament passed these to control colonial trade and profit from it.
What are the Navigation Acts?