Historical Figures
He founded Rhode Island for the separation of Church and State. He believed that the Puritans were too powerful and was ordered to leave the Massachusetts Bay Colony for his religious beliefs.
Roger Williams
This document contained the guidelines for government in the Plymouth colony.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
The Virginia Company's system in which settlers and the family members who came with them each received 50 acres of land, or more depending on the size of their family.
What was the Headright System?
A war in the 1750's, in which the British fought against the French and Native Americans
What was the French and Indian war?
This colony was established as a haven for Catholics
What is Maryland?
A Quaker who founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.
Who is William Penn?
These laws restricted trade between England and its colonies. Colonies could only trade with their "mother" country
What were the Navigation Acts?
An English company that monopolized the slave trade, established trading posts in Western Africa and successfully eliminated all competition
What was The Royal African Company?
A multi-tribe alliance in which Indians fought the Puritans, hoping to reclaim their land
What was King Phillip's war?
This colony was established as a debtors colony, acting as a buffer zone between South Carolina and Spanish Florida
What is Georgia?
Enslaved as a young girl, she lived in Boston and became a celebrated poet that wrote about faith, liberty, and questioned the ethics of slavery.
Who is Phillis Wheatley?
1600-1700's Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved Africans and denied them basic rights.
What were the Slave Codes?
White men or women who sold their labor for the cost of a trip from England to the Colonies. Typically worked for 5-7 years.
Who were Indentured Servants?
- Operating business as a woman
- Claiming to hear divine voices
Were both justifications for persecution and suspicion during this acrimonious historical episode.
What were The Salem Witch Trials?
This law prevented English colonists from settling to the West of the Appalachian mountains.
What was the Proclamation of 1763?
She was banished from Massachusetts for holding Bible meetings for women and is regarded as one of the first American feminists.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
They relied on an "Athenian" style, in which all white, land-holding men were allowed to participate in citizen-participation direct democracy.
What were Town Meetings in New England?
-Distrust of indentured servants
-Increased use of African Slaves
-Increased animosity across economic lines
What are the effects of Bacon's Rebellion?
Who was William Penn?
These colonies were defined by their fertile soil and general acceptance of religious diversity
What were the Middle Colonies?
He became the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay colony. A Puritan with strong religious beliefs, he opposed total democracy, believing the colony was best governed by a small group of "skillful" (Male) leaders.
John Winthrop (1588-1649)
This Virginian lawmaking assembly was the first instance of representative democracy in the British Colonies. (Not in America, that honor belongs to who?)
(Two-part answer)
What was the House of Burgesses?
Who are the Iroquois?
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas
What was the Middle Passage?
This was a widespread revival in all Thirteen Colonies in the mid-1700s, which directly spread ideas of liberty and Revolution.
What was The Great Awakening?
This Native American nation lived near Jamestown and practiced communal land ownership, unlike the colonists that encountered them.
Who are the Powhatan People?