Puritans and Pilgrims
What religious group, seeking to separate from the Church of England, founded Plymouth Colony in 1620?
Who are the Pilgrims?
What colonies made up the New England region?
What are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire?
Name all 4 colonies from the Middle Colonies.
What are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware?
What three regions were connected by the triangular trade?
What is Europe, Africa and the Americas?
In what year was Jamestown founded?
What is 1607?
What agreement, signed by the Pilgrims aboard their ship, established self-governance for Plymouth Colony?
What was the Mayflower Compact?
Which New England colony was founded by Roger Williams for greater religious tolerance?
What is Rhode Island?
What nickname was given to the Middle Colonies because of their large grain production?
What is the "Breadbasket of the colonies"?
What was the journey called that enslaved Africans endured on ships to the Americas?
What is the Middle Passage?
What company established Jamestown to seek profit for its investors?
What is the Virginia Company?
What motivated the Puritans to establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630?
What is religious freedom?
What was a key economic activity in New England due to its rocky soil and cool climate?
What is fishing/timber/shipbuilding?
What religious group settled in Pennsylvania for religious freedom under William Penn?
Who are the Quakers?
What goods were shipped from the Americas to Europe in the triangular trade?
What are sugar, tobacco, rice and cotton?
What leader helped Jamestown survive its early struggles by enforcing work among the settlers?
Who is Captain John Smith?
What leader described the Puritan colony as a "city upon a hill" to inspire moral and religious excellence?
Who is John Winthrop?
What war in the 1670s involved New England settlers and Native Americans, severely damaging relations?
What is King Philip's War?
Why was New Amsterdam renamed New York in 1664?
What is because the English took control from the Dutch?
Why did the triangular trade become crucial to the economies of the colonies?
What is because it provided raw materials, labor, and markets?
What event in the winter of 1609-1610 nearly wiped out the Jamestown colony?
What was the"Starving time??
What was the name of the first college established by the Puritans in 1636 to train ministers and leaders for their community?
What is Harvard College?
Which religious dissenter was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony and later helped settle Rhode Island?
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
What port city in the Middle Colonies besides New York became one of the largest and most important trading hubs in colonial America?
What is Philadelphia?
What type of laws were created to control and intimidate slaves in the southern colonies?
What were slave codes?
What Native American leader initially helped the Jamestown settlers survive?
Who is Powhatan?