Southern Colonies
The first permanent English settlement of the Americas.
What is Jamestown
Separatists founded this first permanent English colony in New England
What is Plymouth Colony
The famous writer and businessman who founded Pennsylvania on Quaker values.
Who is William Penn
Settling of Jamestown and Settling of Plymouth
What is Jamestown
Cash crop that made the Southern Colonies the most money.
What is Tobacco
English trading company that sponsored the successful Jamestown voyage.
What is the Virginia Company
Religious group and founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony who believed the Anglican church could be reformed from within.
What are Puritans
The movement of emotional, religious revival from the 1730s-1760s that instilled ideas of liberty and equality within citizens of the colonies.
What is the Great Awakening
Settling of Jamestown and the English Reformation
What is the English Reformation
The process of England leaving the Catholic church to become officially Protestant.
What is the English Reformation
The 1676-1677 uprising against the colonial government and Indigenous tribes in the Virginia Colony that led to an increase in slavery in the southern colonies
What is Bacon's Rebellion
Document that established the basic government of Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact
The most famous preacher of the Great Awakening.
Who is George Whitefield
Bacon's Rebellion and Settling of Plymouth
What is Plymouth
The colonial governor of Virginia during Bacon’s Rebellion.
Who is William Berkeley
The first colonial governing body in Virginia
What is the House of Burgesses
Prominent Puritan who led the Puritans to America and was the 1st governor of Massachusetts Bay.
Who is John Winthrop
The term used to describe the mass influx of Puritans that spread throughout the New England and Middle Colonies.
What is the Great Migration
Bacon's Rebellion and Start of the Great Awakening
What is Bacon's Rebellion
The most diverse set of Colonies in colonial America.
What are the Middle Colonies
The contract system that paid for passage, food, housing, etc. in exchange for labor. It enticed people to come to the southern colonies.
What is Indentured Servitude
Who are the Wampanoags
The land granting system that promised large swaths of land to people who would bring and settle fifty families in New York and the middle colonies.
What is Patroonship
Start of the Great Awakening and Founding of Pennsylvania
What is Pennsylvania
The most influential sermon of the Great Awakening.
What is "Sinners in the Hands of An Angry God"