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The __________ migrated to America to escape from religious tension, punishment by English leaders and to practice a new form of Protestantism.
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| Merchants, shipbuilders, and fishermen were a major part of the economy of ______________________. |
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| A system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade |
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| The _________ created by Plymouth colonists could best be described as an early attempt at self-government in the English colonies. |
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| ________________'s belief that people could have a relationship with God without guidance from ministers posed a threat to authority in the community. |
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| The ___________ had a social impact on the colonies because it unified various groups of Americans who shared evangelical beliefs. |
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| In European nations, the practice of carefully controlling trade to create and maintain wealth was called __________. |
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| The objective of the ______________________ was to reduce the powers of the English Monarch. |
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| The disadvantage of farming in _______________ was that regional farms did not support cash crops. |
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| The ___________'s "headright system" encouraged aristocrats to move to Virginia by giving 50 acres of land per person to idividuals and groups who paid their own way. |
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| The ___________ of 1765 was particularly upsetting to the colonists. It was the first time Parliament had tried to tax colonists directly. |
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| The ___________ colonies had the strictest slave codes because they had the largest farming areas and therfore the most slaves. |
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| The Virgina colonists decided to use slave labor partially because there were not enough ________________ to meet the high demand of cash crop plantations. |
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| Slaves in the _________ colonies worked at skilled crafts such as blacksmithing and carpentry. |
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| Lord Baltimore proposed the _____________ of 1649 to outlaw the restrictions of the religious rights of Christians in Maryland. |
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| England punished Massachusetts for the ____________ by cancelling its charter, closing Boston Harbor, and requiring the governor's approval for the legislature to meet. |
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| The colonists call the Coercive Acts, passed by Parliament in the spring of 1774 the ____________________. |
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| The __________ that supported the middle colonists icluded wheat, oats, and barley. |
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| Parliament repealed almost all of the _________ to give the colonists a sense of independence. |
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| The _________ came to an end when a Virginia colonist killed a Powhatan leader. |
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| _______________ forced colonists in Jamestown to work harder and made friends with the local natives. |
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| ___________ were colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years. |
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| _________ created in Massachusetts, were groups that helped towns and colonies share information about resisting the new British Laws. |
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| Committees of Correspondence |
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| ___________ are crops that are continuously in demand. |
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| ___________ was the daughter of a Powhatan chief whose marriage to colonist John Rolfe eased tensions between the Powhatan and the colonists. |
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| ____________ was one of the leaders in the Great Awakening who urged sinners to seek forgiveness for their sins. |
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| The _________ were a protestant sect founded in England that believed salvation was available to all people. |
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| ____________ are people who move to another country after leaving their homeland. |
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| ____________ were a political gathering at which people made decisions on local issues. |
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| ___________ was a Quaker leader who established a colony with the goal of fair government for all. |
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