The Southern Colonies
Life in New England
The Middle Colonies
Immigration and Slavery
The Colonial Economy
Creating an American Identity
Mr. Hoard's Thoughts
100
Which settlement, founded in Virginia in 1607, became England's first permanent colony in North America?
Jamestown
100
What ship carried the Pilgrims to North America in 1620?
Mayflower
100
What did the English rename New Amsterdam after taking control in 1664?
New York
100
What type of worker agreed to work for several years in exchange for passage to the American colonies?
Indentured servant
100
Fishing, lumber, and shipbuilding were especially important to which colonial region?
New England
100
What English document, signed in 1215, limited the king's power and protected certain legal rights?
Magna Carta
100
Who is this HOF linebacker?
Ray Lewis
200
What crop saved Jamestown's economy by becoming a profitable product to sell in Europe?
Tobacco
200
What was the name of the protestant sect that wanted to "purify" the Anglican Church
Puritain
200
What religious group believed in peace and religious tolerance and played an important role in Pennsylvania?
Quakers
200
What was the name of the forced Atlantic voyage of enslaved Africans to the Americas?
Middle Passage
200
What colonial region was known for productive farms that exported large amounts of wheat?
Middle Colonies
200
What religious movement of the 1700s inspired colonists through powerful sermons and revival meetings?
Great Awakening
200
What character is Michael Rosenbaum portraying in this image?
Lex Luthor
300
What assembly was created in Virginia in 1619 that allowed elected colonists to help make laws?
House of Burgesses
300
What Puritan leader helped establish the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630?
John Winthrop
300
What term describes a condition, such as religious persecution, that encourages people to leave their homeland?
Push factor
300
What trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas through the exchange of goods and enslaved people?
Triangular trade
300
Tobacco, rice, and indigo were valuable cash crops grown in which colonial region?
Southern Colonies
300
Which English document, adopted in 1689, protected rights and limited the monarch's power?
English Bill of Rights
300
Who was the second person to take the mantle of Robin?
Jason Todd
400
Who was the powerful American Indian leader who headed an alliance of tribes near Jamestown and dealt with English settlers?
Powhatan
400
What colony did Roger Williams help establish that offered greater religious freedom than Puritan Massachusetts?
Rhode Island
400
How would William Penn acquire land from the Native Americans?
Bought it at a fair price
400
What colonial laws restricted the freedom of enslaved Africans and made slavery hereditary?
Slave codes
400
What laws did Parliament pass to control colonial shipping and trade for England's benefit?
Navigation Acts
400
What European intellectual movement promoted reason, observation, and scientific thinking?
Enlightenment
400
Who is this musician?
Avril Lavigne
500
What 1676 uprising exposed tensions between poorer frontier settlers and Virginia's wealthy colonial leaders?
Bacon's Rebellion
500
What 1675–1676 conflict involved New England colonists and American Indians led by Metacom?
King Philip's War
500
How did William Penn get the land to create Pennsylvania?
Charles II owed him a debt
500
What enslaved African American poet from Boston published a book of poems in 1773?
Phillis Wheatley
500
What economic policy did England use to build its wealth and power by controlling trade with its colonies?
Mercantilism
500
What Enlightenment thinker argued that people have natural rights and challenged the unlimited power of kings?
John Locke
500
Who wrote Leaves of Grass, which was published on July 4, 1855?
Walt Whitman