The Early Colonies
This colony mysteriously disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
These colonies were known as the breadbasket colonies.
What are the Middle colonies?
A stuffed figure made to look like a specific person.
What is an effigy?
Someone who embarks on a religious journey.
Who is a pilgrim?
This law forced the colonists to only sell goods to England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This colony was founded primarily to make money.
What is Jamestown?
These colonies were the most educated.
What are the New England colonies?
This was the first major conflict between the colonists and the British army.
What is the Battle of Lexington (and Concord)?
A person who unlawfully rejects the church.
Who is a separatist?
Claimed Pocahontas "saved his life."
Who is John Smith?
Plymouth was founded by this group of people.
Who are the pilgrims?
The most tolerant and most diverse of the colonies.
What are the Middle colonies?
The group of revolutionaries operating within Boston.
Who were the Sons of Liberty?
The leader of the Sons of Liberty.
Who is Sam Adams?
This company founded Jamestown.
Who is the Virginia Company?
This colony was founded by Puritans as a theocracy.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
These colonies grew many cash crops and had the largest slave population.
What are the Southern colonies?
Civilians who armed themselves against the British.
What are minutemen?
The English government who makes the laws and "represents" the people.
What is Parliament?
These preachers were known for sermons that tugged at the emotions of colonists.
Who are George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards?
Jamestown's labor problem was primarily solved by this practice.
What is slavery?
These colonies used subsistence farming.
What are the New England colonies?
This company was selling the tea that colonists eventually decided to boycott.
Who is the East India Company?
Someone who illegally transports goods into or out of a country.
Who is a smuggler?
List three cash crops.
What are rice, indigo, and tobacco?
The Native American tribe (and place) said to be a part of Roanoke's disappearance.
Who are the Croatoan?
This colony was founded by Roger Williams after he was exiled by the Puritans.
What is Rhode Island?
The nickname for the Coercive Acts.
What are the "Intolerable Acts"?
This Enlightenment thinker believed that all people have natural rights (life, liberty, property, etc.).
Who is John Locke?
The English leader responsible for creating the penal colony of Georgia.
Who is James Ogelthorpe?