Early Governments
Written by the Pilgrims, the ______________ declared the colony would be governed by majority will.
Mayflower Compact
The _______________ gave 50 acres of land to settlers for each passage to the New World they paid for.
Headwright System
An _____________ agreed to work for 4-7 years in exchange for passage to the New World and room and board.
Indentured Servants
In _____________________, numerous Native American tribes united to push New England colonists off their land. The fighting lasted for about a year and the colonists prevailed.
King Philip's War
The settlement founded in the early 1600s that was the most consequential for the future United States was
The English at Jamestown 1607
The ____________ was the first legislative assembly in America.
House of Burgesses
Compared with the Plymouth Colony, the Massachusetts Bay Colony was (Economically speaking)
Larger and more prosperous
Those who wanted to reform the Church of England from within were called _________________.
Puritans
An early conflict in the New England colonies between settlers and their Native American allies vs. non-allied Native American tribes was called the ______________.
Pequot War
Spain's dreams of empire began to fade with the failure of....
The Spanish Armada
Which New England settlement did not become a separate colony, but remained under the direct control of Massachusetts?
Maine
One reason that the Massachusetts Bay Colony was not a true democracy is that
Only Church members could vote
Those who left the Church of England (separatists) were known as the ___________________.
Pilgrims
The essential heresy that caused Anne Hutchinson to be convicted and banished from Massachusetts Bay was her declared belief that
she had received a direct revelation from God that the saved did not need to obey either human or divine law
The first English attempt at colonization in 1585 was in
Roanoke Island
Besides Pennsylvania, Quakers were also heavily involved in the early settlement of both
New Jersey and Delaware
Roger Williams based the religious freedom of his colony of Rhode Island on his belief that
civil government had no right to regulate religious behavior or individual conscience
Under the _________________, New England colonists could become members of the church even if they had not felt a conversion.
Halfway Covenant
The Indian tribe that the Pilgrim colonists in New England first encountered were the
Wampanoags
The financial means for England's first permanent colonization in America were provided by
A joint stock company
These Colonies (Name 2) had more ethnic diversity than either New England or the southern colonies
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
This colony specific area actively sought settlers from Germany and other non-British countries
William Penns Pennsylvania
The principal motivation shaping the earliest settlements in New England was
Religious Commitment and Devotion
King Philip's War represented the last
Indian effort to take away New Englanders' encroachment on their lands
A peace settlement ended the First Anglo-Powhatan War in 1614 by the marriage....
of Pocahontas to the colonist John Rolfe