Colonial Rights
democracy/democratic
Colonial laws often only allowed for the practice of this major world religion.
Christianity
This member of the Society of Friends, also know as the Quakers, founded Pennsylvania.
William Penn
This region's climate was best suited to farming.
Southern
cash crop
Who was allowed to vote in Colonial America?
white male landowners
Colonies in this region were founded by Puritans seeking religious freedom.
New England
This colony was officially formed in 1662, combined the Hartford and New Haven settlements, and gave its colonists more rights that any other colonies at the time except for Rhode Island.
Connecticut
It's location made this region home to most of the important shipping ports and shipbuilding locations in the colony.
New England
charter
What is one right included in the English Bill of Rights?
Trial by jury
Only elected officials in Parliament can make laws and collect taxes
Colonizers in this region were often looking for religious freedom, and came from diverse cultural and religious backgrounds.
Middle
This colony that included the previously established New Netherlands settlement was names after it new owner who expected it to make money for him.
New York
These two bodies of water create natural borders for present-day Ohio.
Lake Erie and the Ohio River
This document was the first to officially limit the power of the king
Magna Carta
What was the biggest impact of the Magna Carta for English citizens?
It limited the power of the king
What was the primary goal of education in the New England colonies?
To teach students to read the Bible
This colony was founded to give poor people in England who could not pay their bills an opportunity to start a new life instead of going to jail.
Georgia
This geographic feature most likely explains why early colonizers did not move further west into North America.
Appalachian Mountains
Who signed the Mayflower Compact and what did it say?
Separatists/Pilgrims head to America
Described how they would govern themselves in America
Put the following concepts in chronological order based on when they were first introduced. (You can just write the letters.)
A. English Bill of Rights, B. Great Awakening, C. Magna Carta, D. Parliament
C
D
A
B
List two things that were true about education in most colonial communities.
Boys got more education than girls
Religion was a central focus of education
Laws banned education of enslaved people
This colony's economy relied heavily on tobacco. Enslaved Indigenous people, indentured servants, and enslaved Africans were all used to keep farms running.
Virginia
The Middle Passage refers to the movement of enslaved Africans across this body of water.
Atlantic Ocean
What started the Great Awakening? What was one impact of the Great Awakening?
A belief among Protestant Christians that people had lost their religious faith
Preachers started traveling around and holding large revival meetings
Encouraged literacy education to make sure people could read the Bible
Promoted ideas of equality ultimately opening the door to revolution **Ideas of equality still not apply to many groups of people