Why Have Colonies?
This economic theory said countries needed to export more goods than they imported to increase wealth and power.
What is mercantilism?
The first permanent English settlement in North America was established here in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The Pilgrims were also called this because they wanted to separate from the Church of England.
Who are Separatists?
This colony was originally called New Netherlands and was settled by the Dutch in 1624.
What is New York?
This Southern colony was founded by Lord Baltimore as a haven for persecuted Catholics.
What is Maryland?
According to mercantilism, a country needed to do this in order to have a favorable balance of trade.
What is export more goods than it imported?
This leader declared that those who didn’t work, wouldn’t eat.
This agreement, signed aboard a ship in 1620, created the first self-government plan in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Quaker founded Pennsylvania as a “Holy Experiment” in 1682.
Who is William Penn?
This 1649 law granted religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland.
What is the Toleration Act?
European countries sought colonies primarily to find new markets for these.
What are their goods?
This cash crop, developed by John Rolfe and his wife Pocahontas, made Jamestown profitable
What is tobacco?
This English-speaking Native American helped the Pilgrims grow corn and make peace with the Wampanoag.
Who is Squanto?
This colony began as part of Pennsylvania but separated in 1701 to form its own government.
What is Delaware?
These crops—like rice, indigo, and tobacco—were grown to sell for profit rather than personal use.
What are cash crops?
This was the term for the document that allowed individuals to create and govern colonies on land owned by the king or queen.
What is a charter?
These workers agreed to labor for several years in exchange for passage, food, and shelter.
Who are indentured servants?
This Puritan leader believed the Massachusetts Bay Colony should be “a city upon a hill.”
Who is John Winthrop?
Dutch landholders in New Netherlands used this system that allowed them to rent land to tenant farmers.
What is the patroon system?
This colony, founded in 1732 by James Oglethorpe, was meant to be a buffer between South Carolina and Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
This type of colony was governed by individuals granted land by the king or queen as a political favor.
What is a proprietary colony?
This 1676 rebellion led by frontier farmers and indentured servants was the first colonial revolt against royal control.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This document was the first written constitution in North America and was based on land ownership, not religion.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This colony was divided into East and West before uniting as a royal colony under Queen Anne in 1702.
What is New Jersey?
By 1720, this group outnumbered European settlers 2 to 1 in the Carolinas.
Who were enslaved Africans?