New England Colonies
This early settler disagreed with the Puritan way of life and started the Colony of Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
This Pennsylvania document granted Religious toleration to settlers.
What is the Frame of Government of Pennsylvania?
This Preacher preached the famous message, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God."
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
This was the first document of self-government in America.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Name some of the differences between Education in the New England Colonies vs the Middle and Southern Colonies.
Education in New England was motivated by religion. Early Colleges were created to train ministers. In the Middle and Southern Colonies, Colleges were also established by religious groups, but wealthy families also paid for tutors.
The upper class of the New England colonies were mostly comprised of these people .
What are Lawyers and Merchant Shippers?
This was the Main crop for many of the Southern Colonies.
What is Tobacco?
This religious group sought to reform the Anglican Church and form a "Model Society".
Who are the Puritans?
This type of Colony was governed by a trading company.
What is a Charter Colony?
This Puritan document saw churches have an uptick in membership.
What was the Half-way Covenant?
This Document secured religion toleration for Catholics in Maryland.
What is the Maryland Toleration Act?
This Puritan Minister supported voting being independent of Church Membership.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
This system awarded any person 50 acres of land if they paid someones passage to the New World.
What is the headright system?
This the first written constitution in America.
What are the Fundamental orders of Connecticut?
What is Spain?
This region of colonies had the most religious diversity.
What are the Middle Colonies?
These people were contracted workers that had their passage to the New World paid in exchange for their work, couldn't marry without their contract holders consent, and would receive land and/or money once they are granted their freedom.
What are indentured servants?
This event saw many accusations and executions within a Puritan community.
What are the Salem witch trials?
This was the long pathway that went from Virginia to Georgia and was created by the Iroquois Indians.
What is the Great Wagon Road?
The Anglican Church was well-established in this Region of Colonies.
What are the Southern Colonies?
These were the two largest non-English settlers in the Colonies.
Who were the Scots-Irish and Germans?
This was the New england colony where settlers in Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire came from?
This was another name for White, male, property-owners.
What are freeholders?
These two men were missionaries to Indian tribes.
Who were John Eliot and David Brainerd?
This conflict saw a tribe of indians enslaved after they attacked English Settlers pushing inland.
What was the Pequot War?