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Southern Colonies
New England
Middle Colonies
Colonial Economy
Beginning Causes of the American Revolution
100
First permanent English settlement in the New World?
What is Jamestown?
100
They came to New England for religious freedom.
Who are the Puritans?
100
He founded this colony for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania by William Penn?
100
These colonies practiced agriculture and the society was based on the elite aristocracy of the English practiced by large landowners in the region.
What is southern colonies?
100

Period of free thinking....

What is the Enlightenment?

200

This practice led to an increased desire for independence as the colonist's confidence in their ability to self-govern increased.

What is Salutary Neglect?

200
Puritans practiced direct democracy where male members of the Church who owned property could vote on local issues.
What are town meetings?
200
The Middle Colonies had this nickname due to their main crop produced by farms.
What is "breadbasket"?
200
These colonies turned to fishing, trade, and lumber due to its rocky soil leading to a lack of economic success when compared to the other colonial regions.
What is New England?
200

Colonist questioned this... which will eventually lead to revolt?

What is traditional authority?

300
Worked for seven years on a contract in exchange for passage to America.
What is an indentured servant?
300
The younger generation were not as religious or pious as first generation Puritans. Their parents wanted to ensure they could achieve salvation through this agreement.
What is the Halfway Covenant?
300
The most prominent and known citizen of the Pennsylvania colony who moved from poverty to wealth through his talent and hard work in the capital city of Philadelphia.
Who is Ben Franklin?
300
Term for when a nation's goal is to become wealthy through exporting more than it imports.
What is mercantilism?
300

The Mayflower Compact consisted of... (4 points)

What is majority rule, establish to include town meetings, voting rights to white male landowners, and the establishment of colonial legislatures (law makers). 

400
They taught the English survival skills and how to cultivate tobacco.
What are the Powhatan?
400
The Wampanoag tribe were exhausted from continued white settlement and lack of respect for their lands. However, due to this event, the Wampanoag were almost completely wiped out and few were left in New England.
What is King Phillip's War?
400
The Middle Colonies, especially Pennsylvania, were open to all people and practiced religious toleration leading to a great amount of immigration and this type of population.
What is diverse?
400
The economic trade patterns that saw the colonies ship raw materials to England and rum to Africa.
What is Triangular Trade?
400

The Mayflower Compact and House of Burgesses are both example of early...

What is colonial self-government?

500
This event was caused when the Governor Berkeley did not protect former indentured servant farmers on the frontier from Indian attack.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
500

Banished from Massachusetts for his ideas of separation of church and state.

Who is Roger Williams?

500
This middle colony was taken from the Dutch in 1664 due to a war to end Dutch domination of trade across the world and to end Dutch competition in markets and the fur trade by the English.
What is New York?
500
A revival and interest in religion occurred in the colonies with sermons that preached that sinners would be condemned by an angry god!
What is the Great Awakening?
500

Finish the equation... Increased desire to learn + The importance of the individual + Question Authority +Question previously held beliefs + Increased literacy =

What is Revolutionary Thought?