Important People
Made alliance with Powhatan confederacy and brought discipline and leadership to colonies.
John Smith
Pilgrims, complete separation from the Anglican Church.
Separatists
What crops are grown in the middle colonies?
Staple Crops: Ex. Wheat, barley, oats, etc.
What was the Mayflower compact?
Promise between all the people on the Mayflower that they would treat each other well and have fair laws.
What were the economies like in New England?
mostly trading and fishing
Introduced tobacco to colonies. Married Pocahontas
John Rolfe
Wanted to reform the Anglican Church.
Puritans
Laws passed by the English Parliament to force the colonies to make more money but this upset the colonists
Navigation Acts
Where was the first representative assembly?
Jameston
What were the economies like in the Middle Colonies?
Trading and Farming
Proprietor of New Jersey. He founded a larger colony where Quakers could freely practice (Now Pennsylvania)
William Penn
Largest religious group in New Jersey. (Pennsylvania) Believed in the equality of men and women
quakers
French and Indian War
It was the French vs the British and they fought over who should own the Ohio River Valley.
Compare and contrast town meetings and county meetings. (What were they? Where did they happen?)
They both were where local decisions were made. Town meetings were held in New England, County meetings were held in the Southern colonies.
What were the economies like in the Southern Colonies?
Farming
Taught pilgrims to better farm and worked with the colonists.
Squanto
Fled England to escape religious persecution. They founded Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts.
Pilgrims
What was the first college founded in the colonies?
Harvard
What is the Great Awakening? How did it affect the colonies?
Religion had a large rebirth in the colonies.
What was New York before? Who owned it? What was it called?
New Netherlands. It was owned by the Dutch.
Led the Mayflower voyage. Governor of Plymouth, Massachusetts.
William Bradford
Started Maryland to escape religious Persecution.
Catholics
What is the Headright System?
Colonists were given 50 acres of land to pay their way in the South.
Left Massachusetts to start in Rhode Island.
Roger Williams
What are the Navigation Acts? How did they affect the colonists?
Laws passed by the English Parliament to force the colonies to make more money but this upset the colonists.