CHESAPEAKE COLONIES
This was the first successful permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.
Jamestown
These English Protestants wanted to reform the Church of England and established colonies in New England.
Puritans
This Quaker founded Pennsylvania.
William Penn
From which continent were most enslaved Africans brought to the American colonies?
Africa
What religious movement swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s?
The Great Awakening
Established in 1619, this became the first representative government in colonial America.
House of Burgesses
This agreement established a form of self-government among the Pilgrims at Plymouth.
Mayflower Compact
The Middle Colonies are New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware and _____________?
New Jersey
This voyage carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Tobacco, rice, and indigo were examples of these crops grown mainly for sale.
Cash crops
This crop became an important source of wealth for Virginia and Maryland.
Tobacco
The religious dissenter Roger Williams was banished from Massachusetts and later founded which New England colony?
Rhode Island?
Which city became an important port in Pennsylvania?
Philadelphia?
Most enslaved Africans in the Southern Colonies worked on these large agricultural operations.
Plantations
This economic system was designed to increase England's wealth by using its colonies for trade and resources.
Mercantilism
Maryland was originally founded partly as a safe place for which religious group?
Catholics
Named for Metacom, this 1675–1676 conflict resulted from growing English settlement and American Indian resistance in New England.
King Philip's War
The English took control of New Netherland in 1664 and renamed it this.
New York
This three-part trading system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
Triangular trade
Because of its cold climate and short growing season, New England became especially known for fishing and this coastal industry.
Shipbuilding
This 1676 revolt challenged Virginia's colonial government and its policies toward frontier settlers. oink.
Bacon's Rebellion (Nathaniel Bacon)
The four New England Colonies are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire and ___________?
Connecticut
The Middle Colonies were known for having many different groups of people and religions. What word describes this?
Diversity
These workers agreed to work for several years in exchange for transportation to the colonies.
Indentured servants
This colonial region became known for growing wheat and other grains because of its fertile soil and moderate climate.
Middle Colonies