Southern Colonies
Member of the Jamestown Colony who first introduced tobacco to the colonists for profit.
Who is John Rolfe?
Agreement signed by the Pilgrims when they arrived in Massachusetts to maintain order in the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is the nickname of the middle colonies due to their economy.
What is the Breadbasket?
1607
What is the year Jamestown was founded?
Route from west Africa across the Atlantic Ocean that often carried enslaved Africans against their will from their homes.
What is the Middle Passage?
This colony was established to give English debtors a fresh start.
What is the Georgia colony?
This group were called separatists and wanted to separate from the church of England.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This religious group believed in equality and peace.
Who are the Quakers?
1619
What is the year enslaved Africans were brought to Virginia?
Failed colony that was founded in the late 1590s. To this day, there is no evidence of what happened to the colonists of this colony.
What is Roanoke?
This Native Confederacy came into contact with settlers of Jamestown.
Who is the Powhatan Confederacy?
This group wanted to reform or change the church of England.
Who are the Puritans?
The colony that would become New York was originally colonized by this group.
Who is the Dutch?
1620
What is the year Plymouth was founded?
This Native Confederacy came into contact with settlers at Plymouth.
Who is the Wampanoag Confederacy?
This allowed land owning males to participate in the government of the Virginia Colony.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Strict Puritan leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
This Native group came into contact with settlers in the Middle colonies.
Who is the Lenni Lenape?
1636
What is the year RI was founded?
Form of forced labor where people entered into a contract and typically worked four to seven years in exchange for passage to America, land, etc.
What is indentured servitude?
This provided religious freedom to Christian colonists in Maryland.
What is the Toleration Act of 1649?
This idea of Roger Williams caused him to disagree with Puritan leaders of Massachusetts.
What is the belief that the church and government should be separate and/or religious toleration?
This was the largest city in the Colonies in 1770.
What is Philadelphia?
1732
What is the year Georgia was founded?
What is religious freedom?