Colonial Figures 1
Colonial Documents
The Colonies
Historical Women of the Colonial Period
Historical Events during the Colonial Period
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This native American assisted the Plymouth colonists in planting, hunting, and gathering food.
Who is Squanto?
100
What is John Smith's Map of Virginia?
100
The first permanent British colony in North America.
What is Jamestown Colony?
100
This woman was far ahead of her time in challenging and speaking out against male religious leaders. She eventually helped found a colony while raising her 15 children.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
100
This era of mass hysteria saw 19 innocent people hanged.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
200
This ne'er-do-well egomaniac is responsible for the vomit-inducing stories about Pocahontas that inspired the insipid Disney movie. He was also the leader of Jamestown in its early years.
Who is John Smith?
200
New England colonists drafted this document after they landed in the wrong place, deciding that their previous contract was therefore made null and void. They decided that this gave them the right to make their own laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
200
The first permanent British colony in New England.
What is Plymouth Colony?
200
This woman was abducted from her people and forced-married to an Englishman. Despite her bravery and intelligence, she was carried away to a foreign land and died young.
Who is Pocahontas?
200
During this time of low provisions in one of the colonies, the colonists engaged in cannibalism out of desperation.
What is the Starving Time?
300
This gentleman notably believed that colonists should pay Native Americans for land. He did so himself, and founded the Rhode Island Colony because the Puritans in Massachusetts hated his independent spirit.
Who is Roger Williams?
300
This colonial adventurer wrote this volume of stories about the first years of the Jamestown Colony, and it notoriously contained tall tales and outright fabrications (lies) about the Native peoples of Virginia.
Who is John Smith?
300
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson founded this colony after being banished from Massachusetts.
What is the Rhode Island Colony?
300
Sarah Good, Bridget Bishop, Rebecca Nurse, and Martha Corey were all executed during this period of mass hysteria.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
300
This plant, by some accounts given to an Englishman aboard a ship, became a cash crop, enabling one colony to become self-sufficient within a few years.
What is South American tobacco?
400
This Puritan woman confounded the rigid and draconian men of the Massachusetts Bay Colony by teaching in public, declaring that one did not have to go to church to have a relationship with God, and generally thumbing her nose at them. She also had 15 children.
Anne Hutchinson
400
This book was used to teach a certain group of children to read, write, and learn moral lessons using the Bible.
What is the New England Primer.
400
This colony wanted to be known by a descriptive name taken from the Bible. The name contained a geographical formation.
What is "A City on a Hill"?
400
This slave from Barbados pled guilty to witchcraft in spite of her innocence, thereby saving her own life.
Who is Tituba?
400
The name of a group of white landowners in Virginia who, under the governor, made laws for their colony and are considered the first step toward self-governance in the British colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
500
This gent was one of the founders of Pennsylvania, a Quaker.
William Penn
500
This colony is most famous for one thing.
What is the disappearance of Roanoke Colony?
500
This colony was first explored and settled by the Dutch.
What is New York or New Amsterdam?
500
This young girl accused several women and men of witchcraft, this setting off a mass hysteria in Northern Massachusetts.
Who is Abigail Williams?
500
This war was fought in the New World between colonial powers England and France, with France enlisting the help of indigenous peoples.
What is the French and Indian War?