Colonies
This was the first permanent English colony in America.
What is Jamestown?
This time period in American history is known as a religious revival.
What is the Great Awakening?
The Pilgrims, sailing on the Mayflower, had their eyes on Virginia, but eventually landed in this current U.S. state.
What is Massachusetts?
This important document was signed in 1215 by King John and his barons.
What is the Magna Carta?
This cash crop saved Jamestown and eventually became a major driving force in the colonial economy.
What is tobacco?
These are the three regions of the 13 Colonies.
What is New England, Middle, and Southern?
John Locke came up with natural rights, which included these three ideas.
What is life, liberty, and property?
This Native American helped establish a peaceful relationship between the Pilgrims and the Wampanoag people.
Who is Squanto?
Colonists set up this form of government to help manage their local affairs.
What is representative government?
This famous American helped bring the Enlightenment to the colonies.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This failed attempt at becoming the first permanent settlement in America is known as "the Lost Colony."
What is the Roanoke Colony?
This fiery preacher, based in Massachusetts, is famous for his sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who is Jonathan Edwards?
This time period wiped out over half of the Pilgrims after they arrived in Plymouth.
What is the First Winter?
Jamestown colonists created this elected government, which started a trend towards representative government in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This mode of labor was often used by people to gain a charter or to repay a debt or loan.
This man founded Pennsylvania, which became a safe haven for religious freedom.
Baron de Montesquieu came up with this idea, which is still used in today's U.S. government.
What is the separation of powers?
Upon landing, the Pilgrims wrote up this document establishing a representative government for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Appointed by the King, these people had final say on laws in the 13 colonies.
Who are Governors?
This man wrote a book about his life and experiences as an enslaved man and became an important advocate for abolition in England.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
This woman was kicked out of Massachusetts for her religious beliefs and became an important founder and leader in Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The Enlightenment is a was a time period known for the growth of these particular ideas.
What is science, intellect, and human reasoning?
This conflict arose between the colonists and the Wampanoag people over 50 years after the first Thanksgiving.
What is King Philip's War?
John Peter Zenger was arrested in 1734 for an article that he wrote in the New York Weekly Journal. His trial established this idea, which is currently used in our nation's 1st amendment.
What is the Freedom of the Press?
This economic system was established through trade in order to make England (Mother Country) richer by importing and exporting through the colonies.
What is mercantilism?