The Southern Colonies
First permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
These two groups came to the America to avoid religious persecution.
Who were the Pilgrims and Puritans?
The Dutch founded this as a trading post for exchanging furs with the Iroquois and other Native tribes.
What was New Netherland?
This voyage brought millions of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to be slaves.
What was the Middle Passage?
People who have left the country of their birth to live in another country.
Who are immigrants?
The number of colonists sent to the America the first time in 1607.
What is 105 colonists?
41 male pilgrims signed this contract which they agreed to have fair lows to protect the general good.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
This company brought the first enslaved Africans.
What was the Dutch West India Company?
Virginia's assembly split into two houses. The first was the council of State and the second one was.
What was the House of Burgesses?
Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.
Who was an indentured servant?
The Jamestown settlement received help from this Native tribe.
What is Powhatan Confederacy?
This minister and his followers left Massachusetts to help found Connecticut.
Who was Thomas Hooker?
This person set up a colony where he promised religious freedom to all Christians.
Who was William Penn?
This group of royal advisers set English colonial policies.
Who were the Privy Council?
Crops that are continuously in demand.
What is staple crops?
The introduction of this helped Jamestown make a profit and sold well in England.
What is tobacco?
The New England colonies made an early move toward unity. Several of the colonies formed this.
What was the United Colonies of New England?
Name the middle colonies.
What is New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania?
This gave England control of more land in North America.
What was the French and Indian War?
Protestant sect founded in England that believed salvation was available to all people.
Who are Quakers?
This person established a new colony for the Catholics.
Who was Lord Baltimore?
This person, governor of Plymouth Colony, organized a celebration so that people could give thanks to God and invited Massasoit and his tribe to attend.
Who was William Bradford?
This person sold William Penn a region south Pennsylvania, later called Deleware.
Who was Duke of York?
This law banned British settlement west of the Appalachian Mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
System of creating and maintaining wealth throught controlled trade.
What is mercantilism?