A | B |
The first ATTEMPTED English colony in America | Roanoke |
The leader of the first ATTEMPTED English colony | John White |
First SUCCESSFUL English colony | Jamestown |
State where first successful English colony began | Virginia |
Large business that allows investors to pool their money together by buying shares of a colony to make money | Joint Stock Company |
This is an agreement issued by a government to start a settlement | Charter |
A charter granted by a King or Queen | Royal Charter |
He was the early leader of Jamestown | John Smith |
Native American tribe that was near Jamestown | Powhatan |
The Winter of 1609-10, only 60 of the 500 Jamestown Residents survived is known as: | The Starving Time |
Jamestown's Government was called this | The House of Burgesses |
Type of Government the House of Burgesses was | Representative Democracy |
Large farms usually for cultivation of cash crops | Plantation |
Person who agrees to work for a set amount of years to pay for a trip to the New World | Indentured Servant |
Average length of indentured servitude | 4 to 7 years |
These people first came to America as indentured servants, but were later imported as slaves | Africans |
Colonies with most indentured servants: | North and South Carolina, Georgia |
Idea to attract farmers to America - 50 free acres! | Headright System |
Year first slaves were imported to the US | 1619 |
People who wanted to "clean" the Anglican (English) Church of its corruption and thought they could change it | Puritans |
People who wanted to "clean" the Anglican (English) Church of its corruption and believed that it would never change | Separatists |
People who go on a long journey for their religion | Pilgrim |
Place where the Pilgrims settled | Plymouth, Massachusetts |
Name of government created by the Pilgrims, or Separatists | The Mayflower Compact |
Type of government the Mayflower Compact set up | Direct democracy (for men) |
2 main hardships of the Pilgrims | Lack of food and good shelter |
Native tribe that helped the Pilgrims survive and farm | Wampanoag |
Native American who helped translate for the Pilgrims and helped them with their first Thanksgiving | Squanto |
Leader of the Pilgrims | William Bradford |
Leader of the Puritans in Massachusetts | John Winthrop |
John Winthrop started this colony | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
What John Winthrop called his colony | A "city on a hill" |
Type of government that Massachusetts Bay had | Theocracy |
1692-93, Massachusetts Bay Colony | The Salem Witch Trials took place |
Results of the Salem Witch Trials: | 200 were accused, 19 were found guilty and hanged |
He was a Puritan dissenter (disagreer) who thought that there should be separation of church and state in Massachusetts | Roger Williams |
Colony that Roger Williams founded for religios freeedom and fair treatment of Natives | Providence (Rhode Island) |
She was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after being found guilty of heresy | Anne Hutchinson |
Anne Hutchinson first moved here after her banishment | Rhode Island |
These are Christians that worship without priests, allow anyone to speak in meetings, and are very pacifistic (anti war and violence) | Quakers |
This colony was founded for Quakers, but soon became popular to others because of its freedoms | Pennsylvania |
Who founded Pennsylvania? | William Penn |
What city did William Penn found? | Philadelphia |
What does "Philadelphia" mean? | "City of Brotherly Love" |
Who married Pocahontas? | John Rolph |