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New England Colonies
People
Southern Colonies
Events
Important Documents
100
This was the primary industry of the New England Colonies.
What is shipbuilding?
100
Pocahontas married this John.
Who is John Rolfe?
100
This was the first PERMANENT English colony.
What is Jamestown?
100
A British soldier hitting a colonist during an argument sparked this event.
What is the Boston Massacre?
100
This document was an early attempt at self-government in the English colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
The Pilgrims came to North America in order to escape this.
What is religious persecution?
200
This man invented bifocals.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
200
____, disease and a harsh winter killed many at the start of the Jamestown colony.
What is famine?
200
This was a movement of thinkers who believes in the idea that reason and logic could improve social and political life.
What is the Enlightenment?
200
This document limited the power of the English King.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
The Middle Colonies were known for their ___________ of different religions. (persecution or tolerance.)
What is tolerance?
300
This woman believed that people could have a relationship with God without guidance from ministers.
Who is Ann Hutchinson?
300
This tribe taught the colonists to grow North American crops.
Who are the Powhatans?
300
This was the religious movement that swept through the colonies and changed colonial religion, society, and politics.
What is the Great Awakening?
300
The colonists called the Coercive Acts, passed by Parliament in spring of 1774, this.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
Regional farms in New England could not support many of these.
What are cash crops?
400
This person challenged the authority of ministers in the community.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
400
John Rolfe was a farmer for this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
400
The repercussions of this event included the closing of Boston Harbor.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
400
This Act primarily protected Catholics from persecution.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
500
This state is known for its witch hunts.
What is Massachusetts?
500
This person was an Enlightenment thinker who coined the concepts of a person's right to "life, liberty and property."
Who is John Locke?
500
This was the first colony (in Rhode Island) that disappeared over time. No one know what happened. Dun dun dun...
What is the Roanoke?
500
The British taxed the colonists to pay for this war.
What is the French and Indian War?
500
This Act symbolized the American value of protecting the religious freedom of individuals and minority groups.
What is the Virginia Act of Religious Freedom?