Colonial Regions
This region was known for fishing, shipbuilding, and small farms.
What is New England?
England wanted colonies partly to gain this valuable resource from North America.
What are raw materials?
This term describes the brutal voyage that transported enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
This document, created by the Pilgrims, established an early example of self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This English colony was founded in 1607 and became the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
This region had the greatest ethnic and religious diversity
What are the Mid-Atlantic Colonies?
This economic system encouraged England to use colonies as sources of raw materials and markets for manufactured goods.
What is mercantilism?
This colonial region became especially dependent on enslaved labor because of its plantation-based economy.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This policy allowed the colonies to govern themselves with relatively little interference from England.
What is Salutary Neglect?
This man founded Pennsylvania as a colony where Quakers and other religious groups could practice their beliefs.
Who is William Penn?
This region became heavily dependent on tobacco, rice, and indigo.
What are the Southern Colonies?
These English laws restricted colonial trade and required certain goods to be shipped through England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This religious group established Massachusetts Bay.
Who are the Puritans?
This colony created the first representative legislative assembly in English North America.
What is Virginia?
This English leader helped establish Jamestown and encouraged the colonists to work and build relationships with Native Americans. (He did not marry Pocahontas... sorry, Disney folks)
who is John Smith?
This region's geography allowed it to serve as a "bridge" between the agricultural South and commercial New England.
What are the Mid-Atlantic Colonies?
This labor system allowed people to work for a set number of years in exchange for transportation to the colonies.
What is Indentured Servitude?
This New England colony became known for greater religious tolerance than Massachusetts.
What is Rhode Island?
This event, in 1676, demonstrated that tensions could develop when colonial farmers and elites disagreed over government, taxes, and Native American policy.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This crop helped Jamestown become economically successful and was developed as a major cash crop by this colonist.
What is tobacco, and who is John Rolfe?
Rocky soil and a short growing season helped cause this region to focus on trade and maritime industries.
What is New England?
Colonists sometimes illegally traded goods to avoid English trade restrictions. This practice was called this.
What is smuggling?
These two individuals were banished from Massachusetts Bay due to religious disagreements and the treatment of natives. Both left their mark at a new, nearby colony.
Who are Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
This was the sermon written by John Winthrop -- motivating puritans to continue working hard for they are to be building a __________ upon a _______ for the Lord.
What is a "city upon a hill"
This war demonstrated the growing conflict between New England colonists and Native Americans over land, resources, and colonial expansion.
What is King Philip's War?