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| the first permanent English settlement in North America |
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| daughter of a Powhatan leader; brought food to help the colonists and taught them how to grow corn |
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| a colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
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| was the first law in the Americas protecting religious freedom |
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| a legal contract in which the Pilgrims agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good; early attempt at self-government in the English colonies |
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| a Native American (Pawtuxet) who helped the Pilgrims fertilize soil and communicate with other Native Americans |
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
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| set of principles that made Connecticut's government democratic |
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| crops that are continuously in demand; wheat, oats, barley |
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| reduced the powers of the monarch while Parliament gained power |
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| Result: France lost land claims in North America while Britain gained Canada and most French lands east of the Mississippi River. |
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| Virginia was started by a joint stock company called the Virginia Company, who settled at Jamestown in 1607. What were initial settlers after (looking for)? |
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| precious metals and riches |
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| The London Company’s “headright system” worked by: |
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| encouraging aristocrats to move to Virginia by promising 50 acres of land per person to individuals and groups who paid their own way |
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| What was the major factor in the Virginia colonists’ decision to use slave labor? |
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| there were not enough indentured servants to meet the high demand |
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| Many of the original English colonists were religious separatists from the Church of England (i.e., the Pilgrims in Plymouth and the Puritans in Massachusetts Bay Colony). Why were these groups eager to settle colonies in North America? |
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| religious freedom and financial opportunities |
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| John Winthrop and the Puritans founded the colony of Massachusetts Bay on what principle? |
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| to build a model Christian community |
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| New England had plenty of forests. How does this fact connect to the economic importance of shipbuilding to the region? |
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| The supply of wood enabled shipbuilders to construct vessels to meet the demands of various traders |
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| Who controlled New York before it became an English colony in 1664? |
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| Which colony, founded by William Penn, was started as a refuge for Quakers? |
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| The purpose of the series of Navigation Acts passed by Parliament between 1650 and 1696 was to: |
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| require the colonists to do their trading only with England |
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| In European nations, the practice of carefully controlling trade to create and maintain wealth was called: |
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| What law banned colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains? |
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| During this movement, thinkers like John Locke, believed there was a social contract between government and citizens: |
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| What effect did the Great Awakening have on political life in the colonies during the 1730s? |
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| Sermons on spiritual equality led colonists to ask for political equality, which set the stage for the American Revolution |
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| What was the first elected legislature in the colonies? |
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| How did Virginia settlers eventually start the colony on the road to profitability? |
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| they figured out how to grow tobacco |
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| Many English Catholics came to which colony in the Americas to escape religious persecution? |
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| Who was the founder of Georgia? Why did he start the colony? |
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| James Oglethorpe - it was a place where people in debt could make a new start |
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| What were the important cash crops of the southern colonies? |
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| In what colony did the Puritans and Pilgrims settle? |
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| Thomas Hooker was known as: |
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| “the father of American democracy” |
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| Who founded Rhode Island? Why did he start the colony? |
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| Roger Williams - religious toleration |
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| Why did most colonists from the New England colonies want their children to be educated? |
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| all children need to be able to read the Bible |
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