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Mayflower Compact | A document that Puritans based their community on |
intolerant | Puritans were ______ of those not sharing their religion. |
town meetings | Puritans practiced direct democracy through ____. |
religious freedom, economic opportunity | What the English immigrants wanted to find in America... |
Cavaliers | A name for English nobility who settled in Virginia |
indentured servants | Poor English immigrants agreed to be ___ to pay for a passage to America. |
1607 | Jamestown was settled in ____. |
Virginia Company of London | The joint stock company that financed the Jamestown Expedition was called ____. |
Jamestown | What was the first permanent English settlement in North America called? |
Virginia House of Burgesses | What was the first elected assembly in teh New World called? |
General Assembly of Virginia | What is the Virginia House of Burgesses now called? |
diseases | Many Indians died from ____ brought by the English settlers. |
1619 | When were the first Africans brought to Jamestown against their will? |
New England | Economy was based on shipbuilding, fishing, lubering, subsistence farming, and manufacturing |
Middle Colonies | Economy based on shipbuilding, small scale farming, and trading |
Southern Colonies | Economy based on large plantations which grew cash crops |
private ownership of property and free enterprise | What was colonial life characterized by? |
New England | Which colonial society was based on religious standing? |
The Quakers | Settlers in Pennsylvania who believed in religious tolerance |
The Catholics | Settlers in Maryland who believed in religious tolerance |
Southern Colonies | Colonies based on family status and ownership of land |
Southeast Colonies | Colonies that maintained an allegiance to the Church of England |
Great Awakening | The religious movement that swept Europe and the Colonies in the mid 1700's |
Indentured Servents | Often were poor people from England, Scotland, and Ireland |
Middle Passage | Refers to Africans who were forced across the Atlantic to the Colonies for slavery |
Civil War/Conflict between the North and South | What did the development of a slavery based agricultural system in the South lead to? |