Colonies
Was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
A colonist and leader of Jamestown.
Who is John Smith?
Their economy was mostly farm and plantations.
What are the southern colonies?
They celebrated their first harvest and it became the basis for our modern Thanksgiving.
What is the Pilgrims?
Founded the Plymouth Colony seeking for religious freedom.
What are the Pilgrims?
Founded by William Penn, served as a haven for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
Leader of Puritans, left England seeking religious freedom.
Who is John Winthrop?
These colonies economy centered around shipbuilding, fishing, and trade.
What are the New England Colonies?
Made limiting religious rights of Christians a crime in Maryland.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
Wanted to purify the Church of England.
What are Puritans?
Founded as a haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
Settler of Connecticut in 1636.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
These colonies produce large amounts of wheat and grains.
What are the Middle Colonies?
The first representative assembly.
What is the House of Burgesses?
A religious group that believed in the equality of men and women before God.
What are the Quakers?
Founded by James Oglethorpe, founded as a haven for debtors.
What is Georgia?
A former slave who wrote down his experiences.
Who is Oladuah Equiano?
Tobacco was the primary cash crop for this colony’s economy.
What is Virginia?
Triggered by economic struggles of freed indentured servants and land disputes with Native Americans.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
People who have left their country of birth to live in another country.
What are immigrants?
Founded to promote religious freedom and separation of church and state.
What is Rhode Island?
Puritan woman, disagreed on religious ideas, and was forced to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
This colony experimented with growing tobacco.
What is Jamestown?
End of significant Native American resistance in New England.
What is King Phillip’s War?
Colonists who reached America by working for free for other people who had paid for their journeys.
Who are indentured servants?