Southern Colonies
the first permanent English settlement in North America
What Is Jamestown?
Founded for religious freedom from England
Why was Plymouth Colony founded?
A Quaker leader that founded Pennsylvania
Who was William Penn?
A legal contract male passengers on the Mayflower signed agreeing to have fair laws to protect the general good.Argument to form a government based on majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Farming, plantations, and slave trading.Resources included corn, indigo, pigs, rice, and tobacco
What is the southern colonie’s economy like?
The primary cash crop of the Virginia Colony
What is Tobacco?
Shipbuilding, fishing, and trading, not as many slaves as other colonies.
What was the economy of the New England colonies?
A safe haven for Quakers
What is Pennsylvania?
The first representative assembly in the colonies, established in Virginia
What is the House of Burgesses.
Crops that are always needed, such as wheat barley and oats.
What are staple crops?
A safe haven for debtors and a buffer for Spanish Florida
What is the Georgia colony?
Founded in 1620
When was Plymouth Colony founded?
A colony that is located between the Hudson and Delaware rivers, there was many Dutch, Finish,Swedish, and Scottish people living there.
what is the New Jersey colony?
An act that made limiting the religious rights of Christians a crime.
What was the Toleration Act of 1649?
A protest and group who wanted to reform, or purify, the Church of England.
What are the puritans?
A rebellion in Virginia in 1676
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
Founder of Rhode Island
Who was Roger Williams?
The name given to the middle colonies for their large amounts of wheat and grains.
What is “The Breadbasket”
The first written constitution in North America, based on land ownership.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
It was founded as a safe haven for Catholics facing persecution in England
Why is the Maryland colony?
The founder of Georgia
Who was James Oglethorpe?
A war that ended Native American resistance in England
What was King Philip’s War?
A director general who led the New Netherlands colony beginning in 1647
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
A document that forced the king to give the English people rights,written before the colonies were established.
What is the Magna Carta?
Patuxet Indian who had lived in Europe and spoke English
Who was Tisquantum (Squanto)?