Vocab
To move from one place to another and establish a home in a new place.
Migrate
Where were the European explorers trying to go?
Asia/India/China
Name one of the three colonial regions.
New England, Middle, or Southern
True or False: 80% of people were farmers in the early 1700's.
False - 90%
An event among the Puritans starting in 1692 that led to the deaths of 20 people, mainly comprised of women.
The Salem Witch Trials
The exchange of plants, animals, diseases, and people across the Atlantic Ocean between Europe and the Americas.
Columbian Exchange
This man found gold in Puerto Rico, searched for the 'Fountain of Youth', and claimed Florida for Spain.
Juan Ponce de Leon
Name one of the Middle Colonies
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
The group of religious dissenters from England.
Puritans
Which two countries fought in the French and Indian War?
England and France
Spanish soldier-explorers, especially those who conquered the native people of Mexico and Peru.
Conquistadors
The French _______________ with Native Americans in the Mississippi River Valley.
Traded
A region's _____________ defines its economy.
Geography/Climate
The law-making part of the English government.
Parliament
What was the financial impact on the colonists after the French and Indian War?
Heavy taxation from England/King George III
The idea that colonies exist to make money for the mother country.
Mercantilism
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
Jamestown, Virginia
Who was the founder of Pennsylvania?
William Penn
Name one of the two larges port cities in mid 1700's America.
Philadelphia or New York
A 1676 raid on the Jamestown colony that led to it being burned down. Led to the distrust of indentured servants and an increase in slave labor.
Bacon's Rebellion
A formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony’s geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed
Charter
Before being taken over by the English, the city of New Netherland was settled by __________
The Dutch
This person was kicked out of Massachusetts by the Puritans and founded Rhode Island.
Roger Williams/Anne Hutchinson
This religious movement in the 1730's encouraged the ideas of liberty, equality, and self-reliance. It helped pave the way for the American Revolution.
The Great Awakening
This act from King George III created an imaginary line that the colonists were not allowed to travel west of.
Proclamation of 1763