What woman was banished from Massachusetts Bay for her different beliefs?
Anne Hutchison
What "business" helped the creation of many colonies in the new world?
joint stock company
What is the Middle Passage?
Part of the Triangular Trade where people were taken from Africa to the new world to be slaves
A preacher who was known for the sermon "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
Jonathan Edwards
What miscarriage of justice (leading to the execution of 20 women and men) took place in 1692 in Massachusetts?
Salem Witch Trials
In what year was Jamestown founded?
1607
An English preacher who started the Great Awakening
George Whitfield
Which colonial region was settled by the Puritans and Pilgrims because of religious freedom?
New England
What colony did Roger Williams found? Why?
Rhode Island; religious freedom
The Pilgrims wrote the first agreement for self-government for Plymouth. It was called...
The Mayflower Compact
The first representative government in Jamestown, Virginia
House of Burgesses
What is the term used to describe the economic system in which the colonies traded raw materials to England for manufactured goods so the Mother Country had a positive trade balance?
mercantilism
Which colonies had farms, plantations, and slaves?
southern colonies
When gold was not discovered, what commodity made the colony viable?
tobacco
The region that treated the Native Americans fairly
Middle Colonies
A policy of England lightly supervising the colones as long as they were loyal
salutary neglect
Who helped save Jamestown by marrying Pocahontas and developing tobacco as a cash crop?
John Rolfe
This rebellion was made against the Jamestown governor because he wouldn't help the settlers fight the Native Americans.
Bacon's Rebellion
Colonies that made their money from shipbuilding, lumber, and fishing
New England colonies
What colony was founded by Oglethorpe as a refuge for debtors as a buffer between Spanish FL and the English colonies?
Georgia
What was the religious fervor called that helped to unify the colonies?
Great Awakening
Which soldier saved Jamestown from ruin and what was his rule?
John Smith; if you don't work, you don't eat
People who have their trip to the new world paid for in exchange for working for that person for several years.
Indentured Servant
The colonies that based their economy on wheat/grain and was nicknamed the Bread Basket
Middle colonies
Which colony was founded as a refuge for Quakers?
Pennsylvania
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