The Southern Colonies
This Southern Colony was intended to be a refuge for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
These types of crops were grown in the Middle Colonies because they were always in demand.
What are Staple Crops?
The Puritans left Europe to settle in New England for this one reason.
What is freedom of religion.
This war in America was part of the "7 years war" in Europe.
What is the "French and Indian War".
These people signed a contract to work without pay for a certain number of years.
Who are indentured servants?
This Southern Colony was a place debtors could make a new start and originally outlawed slavery.
What is Georgia?
This Middle Colony founded by the Dutch was led by Director-General Peter Stuyvesant.
What is the Colony of New York?
These were 3 important parts on the New England economy.
What are trade, fishing and shipbuilding?
This movement spread ideas that reason and logic could improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
This group of people established their own basic laws and social rules.
Who are the Pilgrams?
During this Rebellion over taxes, Jamestown was burned to the ground.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Penn named the capital of his colony Philadelphia, which means this.
What is "the city of Brotherly Love"?
This College was the first college founded in the colonies. It is still in Boston today.
What is Harvard?
This was the first major event of the French and Indian War.
What is Washington's defeat at Fort Necessity?
This Puritan Leader believed in a "Separation of Church and State".
Who was Roger Williams?
Under this system, colonists received 50 acres of land and could earn another 50 for every additional person brought from England.
What is the Headright System?
George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley were proprietors of this colony.
What is New Jersey?
This amount of women were tried and put to death for being witches during the Salem witch trials.
What is 19?
This English document encouraged the colonists to more highly value their own right to elect representatives to decide local issues.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
He and other Enlightenment thinkers influenced colonial politics by spreading the idea that reason could improve society.
Who is John Locke?
This Bill made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians in Maryland.
Under this system, Dutch settlers farmed the owners land and paid him rent.
What is the Patroon system?
This New England school book had characters and stories from the Bible in it.
What is the New England Primer.
These Acts hurt the colonists since they set limits on which nations could trade for colonial goods.
What are the Navigation Acts?
In order to form a colony with a more democratic government, he and a group of people left Massachusetts and founded the Colony of Connecticut.
Who is Thomas Hooker?