Vocabulary
Crop farmed for extra money or profit.
CASH CROP
3 main reasons European Countries explored the New World...
Hint: 3 G's
God (Spread Religion)
Gold (Make Money)
& Glory (Increase the glory of their Nation)
First English Colony in New World.
Jonestown (1607 - Virginia)
During Thanksgiving we usually imagine this group of colonists sitting down to a feast with Native Americans who helped them successfully plant their first crop...
Puritans
This European Country primarily colonized in the Northern part of North America.
France
This contract was created by the Pilgrims on the Mayflower to describe how they chose to govern themselves once they arrived in the New World.
Mayflower Compact.
A person's race or color...
ETHNICITY
This European Country focused on acquiring land and conducting business trading (Mercantilism).
ENGLAND
Colony started by William Penn of the Quakers...
Pennsylvania
This leader of a British Colony was known for saying "If you don't work, you don't eat" and legend has it he was saved by an Indian Princess named Pocahontas...
Who is John Smith.
This European Country primarily colonized in the Southern area of North America (and Central and South America).
Spain
This generally describes a form of government where people vote to make decisions collectively.
Democracy
Exploring and settling a new area...
Colonization
SPAIN
This Massachusetts colony was started by Puritans who came over on the Mayflower...
Plymouth (also accept: Plymouth Rock)
Puritan Leader who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
John Winthrop
Most of the early colonies were located close to...
The Ocean (or Beach, or Bays).
Thomas Hooker created this document which describes the purpose and authority of the State of Connecticut. It was the first of it's kind in the New World.
Fundamental orders of Connecticut (or Constitution)
A large "for profit" farm is also referred to as a...
PLANTATION
This European Nation focused on acquiring land and aquiring fur for trade...
FRANCE
This colony was a safe haven for persecuted Catholics who came from England.
Maryland
Minister who founded Connecticut and who helped write one of the first known examples of a Constitution for their colony.
Thomas Hooker
This State boasts the first English Colony.
Virginia
This word describes a government where a King or Queen is in the highest place of Authority.
Monarchy
An economic system based on merchants buying and selling goods (Merchandise) between the colonies and Europe.
This Penal Colony was a place where English debtors were sent as Indentured Servants to pay off their debts by working the land in the New World.
Georgia
Seeking a colony which allowed for religious tolerance, this minister left the Puritans and helped start a colony in Rhode Island.
Roger Williams
The "middle passage" of the Triangle Trade took ship captains to this Continent.
Africa
Choosing representatives by voting to govern on your behalf is referred to as...
Representative Government (or Republic)
A written contract or document. (example: Business Contract)
CHARTER
Explorer given credit as the first naval captain to reach the "New World" and report back to Europe...
DAILY DOUBLE BONUS QUESTION
What year did this explorer arrive in the New World?
BONUS: 1492
Seeking religious tolerance and separating from the Puritans, Thomas Hooker founded this colony...
Connecticut (Hartford, Connecticut)
This first explorer of the New Worldj who reported back to his European financiers that land existed across the Atlantic Ocean to the West. He sailed the Ocean blue in 1492...
Christopher Columbus
This region of the English colonies had a warm/hot climate and a long growing season perfect for agriculture.
Southern Colonies (or Southern Region)
This describes how the "Majority Rule" when citizens vote to control their own government.
Popular Sovereignty
Measuring the number of people who live in a square mile...
POPULATION DENSITY
First European believed to have first set foot in North America...
(Did NOT report news back to Europe)
LEIF ERIKSON (Viking)
@ 1000A.D.
John Winthrop, a puritan leader, founded this colony
Massachusetts Bay Colony
Anne Hutchinson
This mountain range became the Western border for the English colonies during the colonial period.
Appalachian Mountains
This House in Virginia was one of the first Legislative Bodies in the New World where they voted and made laws.
House of Burgesses
The public voting to elect representatives to run the Government...
Representative Government
The long term success of the English Colonies was partly due to the concentration of settlers relative to the amount of land they occupied. What terms describes and measures this?
Population Density
This rebellious, yet religious, woman was expelled from Massachusetts by the Puritans for disagreeing with their teachings. She joined up with Roger Williams in establishing this colony which boasts religious tolerance...
Rhode Island
The first African Slaves were brought to the New World in this Year?
1619
This group of fresh water lakes are the largest in North American and are connected to each other and the ocean by rivers.
Great Lakes
The Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut and House of Burgesses were all examples of this...
Representative Government. (Ultimately used as examples for US Government)