Beginning of the colonies
The first successful English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The colony founded by the Dutch and later taken over by the English.
What is New York?
The Native American confederation that allied with the Dutch in fur trade.
Who are the Iroquois Confederacy?
The religious movement that emphasized a personal relationship with God and individual salvation.
What is the Great Awakening?
The cash crop that saved the Jamestown colony
tobacco
The ship that brought the Pilgrims to the New World.
What is the Mayflower ship
The colony founded as a haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
The devastating war between the Native Americans and English settlers in Virginia.
What is the Powhatan War?
The religious group that settled in Pennsylvania and believed in the equality of all people.
Who are the Quakers?
The system of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
The economic system where colonies exist to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism
The colony known for its religious tolerance and being a refuge for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
The Native American tribe that had a cooperative relationship with the French in fur trade.
Who are the Huron?
The religious dissenters who were banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and founded Rhode Island.
Who are the Puritans?
The economic theory that colonies exist to benefit the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
The first written framework of government in the American colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The colony founded by Roger Williams, promoting religious freedom and separation of church and state.
What is Rhode Island?
The Native American tribe that practiced a matrilineal kinship system.
Who are the Cherokee?
The religious group that believed in predestination and settled in New England.
Who are the Calvinists?
The region in the southern colonies known for its large plantations and reliance on slavery.
What is the Chesapeake?
The Native American tribe that helped the Pilgrims survive.
What is the Wampanoag?
The colony founded by the Puritans, seeking religious freedom.
What is the massachusetts Bay?
The Native American tribe that had a complex agricultural society in the Southwest.
Who are the Pueblo?
The religious revival that swept through the American colonies in the mid-1700s.
What is the First Great Awakening?
The industry that developed in New England due to its rocky soil and abundant forests.
What is shipbuilding?