13 Colonies
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berner_matthew on September 6, 2010
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Review England's 13 Colonies
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8th Grade Social Studies Mifflin Middle School, AHSGE Social Studies, Graham List, Pereira 8th Social Studies, Reuss Reading HMS
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Roanoke | What was England's "Lost Colony?" |
| Sagadahoc | Which English colony was made up of convicts who argued, fought with Natives and suffered through a harsh winter and food shortages before ultimately returning to England? |
| Jamestown | What was England's 1st permanent colony in America? |
| Mercantilist Theory | What theory says nations increase wealth and power by establishing a favorable balance of trade? |
| John Smith | What Jamestown leader said "he that will not work shall not eat?" |
| John Rolfe | Who developed tobacco to help turn the Jamestown Colony into a success? |
| Indentured Servant | Who sold their labor in exchange for a paid passage to America? |
| Pilgrims | Who separated from the Church of England to escape persecution, sailed on the Mayflower and established the Plymouth Colony? |
| Puritans | Who sailed to Massachusetts Bay to escape persecution for wanting to purify the practices of the Church of England? |
| Mayflower Compact | What helped establish the ideas of self- government and majority rule by creating laws to provide order in the Pilgrim colony? |
| House of Burgesses | What was England's first representative assembly in the American colonies? |
| Squanto | Who taught Pilgrims how to hunt, plant and fish, and also helped negotiate peace with Chief Massasoit? |
| Roger Williams | Who started Rhode Island after being forced to leave Massachusetts Bay for opposing forced church attendance and taking Native land? |
| Proprietary Colony | What is a colony with a single owner? |
| Royal Colony | What is a colony ruled by a governor appointed by the king? |
| Charter | What is a written contract giving permission to start a colony? |
| Joint Stock Company | What business has investors pool wealth to start a colony and try to earn a profit? |
| King Philip's War | What war did the Puritans and Wampanoag fight over land? |
| Powhatan | What Native American tribe first traded with Jamestown and later attacked them? |
| Nathaniel Bacon | Who took control of the House of Burgesses and nearly burnt Jamestown to the ground when the governor refused to go to war with American Indians for land? |
| Salem Witchcraft Trials | What caused hysteria in Salem and eventually led Puritans to return to a devout and hardworking lifestyle? |
| New England Way | What was the Puritan belief in godliness, hard work, duty and honesty that helped the New England Colonies develop quickly called? |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | What laws were made by a Puritan congregation in Connecticut that expanded representative government? |
| Pocahontas | Who was Chief Powhatan's favorite daughter who saved John Smith's life and married John Rolfe? |
| Quakers | Who tremble at the word of God and believe you can know God through an inner light? |
| William Penn | Who started Pennsylvania so Quakers could live according to their beliefs? |
| Anne Hutchinson | Who was kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony for believing people could worship God without a church, minister or the Bible? |
| James Oglethorpe | Who stated Georgia as a refuge for debtors? |
| Great Migration | What event saw thousands of Puritans leave England to found new settlements around the world? |
| Metacom | Who was the leader of the Wampanoag who fought against the Puritans in King Philip's War? |
| Triangle Trade | What was the transatlantic trade in which goods, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa, England, Europe, the West Indies and the North American colonies? |
| Toleration Act | What guaranteed freedom of religion in Maryland? |
| Cash Crops | What is it called when a farmer grows enough crops to sell? |
| Subsistence Agriculture | What is it called when a farmer grows enough to survive with a little extra to trade? |
| Town Meeting | What was it called when New England colonists met to discuss and vote on issues? |
| Southern Colonial Region | Which Colonial Region had freedom of religion, rich soil, hot weather, wetlands, plantations (tobacco, cotton), Jamestown and the House of Burgesses? |
| New England Colonial Region | Which Colonial Region had Puritans, rocky soil, harsh winters, forests, shipbuilding, fishing, trading, Pilgrims and the Mayflower Compact? |
| Middle Colonial Region | Which Colonial Region had diversity, freedom of religion, Philadelphia, Quakers, William Penn, commerce, and cash crop agriculture (grain, wheat)? |
| Thomas Hooker | Who helped establish the Connecticut Colony? |
| John Wheelwright | Who helped to establish the New Hampshire Colony and write the Exeter Compact? |
| Duke of York | Who drove the Dutch out of New Netherland and renamed it New York? |
| George Carteret and Lord Berkeley | Who offered freedom of religion and a representative assembly to attract settlers to New Jersey? |
| Lord Baltimore | Who offered freedom of religion and the Tolerance Act to attract settlers to Maryland? |
| Rhode Island | What colony was started by Roger Williams and offered freedom of religion and separation of church and state? |
| Beringia | What land bridge do most scientists believe Siberians crossed while searching for food to become the first people in the Americas? |
| Thanksgiving | What celebrated the blessing of a good harvest and peace between the Pilgrims and American Indians? |
| Christopher Columbus | Who accidentally discovered the "New World" and thus sparked a race to claim land in the Americas between Spain, France and England? |
| John Cabot | Who planted a flag in Newfoundland allowing England to claim land along the Atlantic coastline of North America? |
| Jacques Cartier | Who claimed Canada for France? |
| Henry Hudson | Who claimed New York and the Hudson River for the Netherlands? |
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