Key Terms
Colonies created by a wealthy sponsor
What is a Proprietary Colony?
The first successful English Colony in North America
What is Jamestown?
The religious group that founded Plymouth
What are the Puritans/Pilgrims?
This country controlled New York before the English took control
What is the Netherlands/Dutch?
How poor people paid their way to Colonial America
What are indentured Servants?
Colonies controlled by the King of England.
What are Royal Colonies?
The first English colony in North America
What is Roanoke?
Religious dissenter who criticized Puritans’ Native American policy and was banned from their colonies. (S)He founded Rhode Island
Who is Roger Williams?
The religious group that founded Pennsylvania
Who are the Quakers?
The route used to transport Africans to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
The man who funded the Maryland Colony
Who is Lord Baltimore?
Leader of the Native Americans around Jamestown and the father of Disney princess Pocahontas
Who is Chief Powhatan?
This established the idea of self-governance in colonial America
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This person founded Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
Trade between America, Europe, and Africa
What is the Triangle Trade?
The man who founded the Georgia Colony
The first representative body in colonial America
What is The House of Burgesses?
In 1636, the Puritans accused this Native American group of killing an English trader. Leading to a war breaking out.
Who are the Pequots?/What is the Pequot War?
The original name for the settlement founded in Manhattan, NY.
What is New Amsterdam?
Where did most North American slaves work?
What are Southern colonies?
The man who lead a group of Puritans to found Boston
Who is John Winthrop?
A system where anyone who paid their own or someone else’s way to Virginia received 50 acres of land for free.
What is the headright system?
The key export of New England colonies
What is Timber?
The Dutch fort in Albany, NY
What is Fort Orange?
First African American to publish a book of poems. She was granted freedom in 1773.
Who is Phillis Wheatly?