Important Documents
What was the first document that limited the power of the English King and was the beginning of the idea of Individual Rights?
What is the Magna Carta?
Reason the New England colonies were established by the Puritans and Pilgrims.
What is religious freedom?
What are the names of the 3 colonial regions?
Northern, Middle, and Southern Colonies
Founded in 1607, the first colony in America
What is Jamestown?
First document outlining rights of citizens that a government can not deny or take away
What was the English Bill of Rights?
Reasons for Spanish exploration and colonization in the New World.
What is gold, glory, and God?
What region has cold climate and rocky soil?
What are the Northern Colonies?
Established in 1620, the landing site of the Pilgrims on the Mayflower in order to have religious freedom
What is Plymouth?
What marked the beginning of self-government in Colonial America?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Reason the colonies of Jamestown, North Carolina, and South Carolina were established by the English.
What is economic and religious reasons
Which group of colonies had fertile farmland and long growing seasons?
What is the Southern Colonies?
A colonist who received free passage to the New World in exchange for working without pay for a set number of years
What is an Indentured Servant?
What was the first representative assembly in the American Colonies?
What is the Virginia House of Burgess?
Who was the Explorer sponsored by Spain in 1492 that sailed in search of a short cut to Asia?
Who is Christopher Columbus?
William Penn created a safe heaven for Quakers in Pennsylvania, Which region is Pennsylvania located in?
Economic practice where countries export more than they import
What is Mercantilism?
What was the first written constitution in the American Colonies?
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
What country controlled the fur trade in North America?
Who is France?
Another name for the Middle Colonies because they were large wheat and oat producers
What is Breadbasket Colonies?
Imaginary passage above the U.S that explorers thought would be a shortcut to Asia
What is the Northwest Passage?