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Life in the English Colonies
Conflicts in the Colonies
100
a settlement founded in Virginia that was named after King James I
What is Jamestown?
100
crops that are always needed
What are staple crops?
100
people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country
What are immigrants?
100
trade among three places: the Americas, Britain, and Africa
What is triangular trade?
100
American revolutionary who helped found the Committees of Correspondence
Who is Samuel Adams?
200
leader of the Jamestown settlement who forced the colonists to work harder
Who is John Smith?
200
a Protestant group who believed in the equality of men and women before God and who supported religious tolerance
Who are the Quakers?
200
a Protestant group that wanted to purify the Anglican Church.
Who are the Puritans?
200
a bill passed in 1689 that reduced the powers of the English monarch
What is the English Bill of Rights?
200
Required colonists to pay for an official stamp when they bought paper items
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
300
colonists who received a free trip to America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years
What is indentured servant?
300
leader who founded the Pennsylvania colony and allowed religious freedom
Who is William Penn?
300
the group of English Protestants that formed Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts
Who are the Pilgrims?
300
the dangerous voyage of slaves from Africa to the colonies
What is the middle passage?
300
incident in which British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
an uprising by Nathaniel Bacon against the Jamestown governor’s policy toward American Indians
What is Bacon's Rebellion
400
leader of the Dutch colony New Netherland
Who is Peter Stuyvesant ?
400
A document written by the Pilgrims that set guidelines for self-government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
What is the Great Awakening?
400
allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists
What is the Tea Act?
500
a bill that made it a crime to restrict, or not tolerate, the religious rights of Christians
What is Toleration act of 1649?
500
The names of the Middle Colonies
What is New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania?
500
leader of the Puritan colonists in Massachusetts
Who is John Winthrop?
500
a movement in Europe during the 1700s which spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society
What is the Enlightenment?
500
Committees formed in towns and colonies to share information about resisting British laws.
What is Committees of Correspondence?