Early colonies (New England)
This "Lost Colony" mysteriously disappeared after its leader, John White, returned from England to find only the word "Croatoan" carved on a post.
What is Roanoke?
In 1664, King Charles gave New Netherland to his brother. What was his name?
AND
What did he change the name of the colony to?
Duke of York
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New York
These workers agreed to work without pay for a set number of years in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
John Peter Zenger, a New York publisher, was jailed for criticizing the governor but won his case, helping to establish freedom of this.
What is freedom of the press?
Jamestown survived its first two years partly because of this person, who forced the settlers to work and reached out to a local Native American confederacy to ask for food for the colonists.
These English colonists left England because they were persecuted for wanting to reform or break away from the Church of England.
What are Puritans / Separatists?
This colony, named after an island in the English Channel, was founded by Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret, who promised settlers freedom of religion, trial by jury, and a representative assembly.
What is New Jersey?
Virginia’s economy relied heavily on this crop, which required a large labor force.
What is tobacco?
OK: Cash crops
Signed in 1215, this document gave English people protection against unjust treatment and influenced colonial ideas of government.
What is the Magna Carta?
This man thought government shouldn't force people to go to church or punish them for their religious beliefs. He was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony, so he went south and started the colony of Rhode Island on the principle of religious freedom.
Who is Roger Williams?
Signed in 1620 aboard a ship off Cape Cod, this agreement created an orderly government where Pilgrims promised to obey laws made “for the general good of the colony.”
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This city's name means “city of brotherly love.”
BONUS: Who is the active proprietor who founded it?
What is Philadelphia?
BONUS: William Penn
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia, led by a young planter, showed that governments could not ignore the demands of the people.
What was Bacon’s Rebellion?
Because of rocky soil and long winters, New England farmers mostly practiced this type of farming, where they grew only enough to feed their families.
What is subsistence farming?
This man, who settlers called King Philip, began a war against the New England Colonies. The war destroyed the power of the Native Americans in New England and colonial settlement grew and spread.
Who was Metacomet?
This New England colony became the first place in America where dissenters and people of all faiths could worship freely.
What is Rhode Island?
This Protestant group, also known as the Society of Friends, were pacifists who believed that everyone was equal and followed their “inner light.”
Who were the Quakers?
In the 1680s, Carolina planters discovered rice grew well in the wet, coastal lowlands, increasing the demand for this.
What is enslaved labor?
This lively event in the 1730s and 1740s was a religious revival that inspired new ideas about faith and freedom.
What is the Great Awakening?
This man wanted to establish a safe place for his fellow Catholics. After the King gave him land, he died, and it went to his son Cecilius, who named it Maryland.
Who was George Calvert?
At first, Native Americans traded furs for goods like clothing, dyes, and guns, but conflict grew when colonists did this without permission or payment.
What is moved onto Native American lands?
This Dutch-controlled settlement on Manhattan Island became a shipping center because of its seaport and access to the Hudson River.
What is New Amsterdam?
James Oglethorpe founded Georgia as a colony where this group of people could make a fresh start.
Who were debtors / poor people?
Because the king and Parliament were not interested in local colonial issues - and because Britain was so far away - colonists started to take part in local government and started to believe strongly in their right to do this.
What is govern themselves
This man was Governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony - where he led a group of 900 Puritans - most of which settled in Boston.
Who was John Winthrop?