Southern Colonies
This colony, founded by Sir George Calvert, was intended as a haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This type of laborer worked to pay off their passage to America without pay for a set period.
What is an indentured servant?
The first successful English colony established in 1607 in Virginia
What is Jamestown?
Maryland required farmers growing this crop to also plant two acres of corn.
What is tobacco?
This 1649 Maryland law granted both Protestants and Catholics the right to worship freely.
What is the Act of Toleration?
This law, passed in 1649, granted religious freedom to both Catholics and Protestants in Maryland.
What is the Act of Toleration?
This legal document outlines land distribution and social ranking, written by John Locke for the Carolinas.
What is a constitution?
The primary crop in Virginia and Maryland, crucial to their economy.
What is tobacco?
French colonists in New France who paid an annual rent and worked a set number of days for their lords.
What is a tenant farmer?
Georgia was established partly to protect other British colonies from this European power.
What is Spain?
This line, surveyed by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, separated Maryland from Pennsylvania.
What is the Mason-Dixon Line?
This term describes someone who owes money and was often imprisoned in England.
What is a debtor?
These Southern Colonies were founded as two separate colonies in 1729.
What are North Carolina and South Carolina?
By 1708, this group made up more than half the population of southern Carolina Who were enslaved Africans.
Who were enslaved Africans?
The official church established in Maryland by the Protestant assembly in 1692.
What is the Anglican Church?
Name the first port and largest settlement of Maryland.
What is Baltimore?
These workers agreed to work without pay for a period to cover their passage to America.
Who were indentured servants?
This colony was established by James Oglethorpe as a place for English debtors.
This colony was established by James Oglethorpe as a place for English debtors.
These workers agreed to work without pay for a period to cover their passage to America.
Who were indentured servants?
Georgia initially banned these three things under Oglethorpe's rule.
What are slavery, Catholics, and rum?
This rebellion in Virginia in 1676 was led by a wealthy planter named Nathaniel Bacon.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Spanish priests established these to spread Christianity among Native Americans.
What are missions?
Virginia's governor who made a land agreement with Native Americans in the 1640s.
Who was William Berkeley?
Knowledge of this crop's cultivation came with enslaved people from West Africa.
What is rice?
This 1676 uprising showed settlers would not be restricted to coastal areas.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?