13 colonies

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Jamestown

First permanent English Colony in the New World; founded in 1607

South Carolina

Grew rice and indigo which resulted in the creation of a wealthy class of planters and population comprised of 4 black slaves for every white person by 1699

Pocahontas

Helped Jamestown survive starvation and later married John Rolfe; daughter of Chief Powhatan

Squanto

Helped the Pilgrims learn to plant crops and hunt

John Smith's motto

If you don't work, you don't eat.

Roman Catholics

Maryland was built so ___________ could practice their religion freely

Southern Colonies

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

New England Colonies

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

King Phillip

Metacom, a Wampanoag Indian, was nicknamed ____________ by colonists. He attacked villages throughout New England to drive the English settlers off Wampanoag land

East Jersey and West Jersey

New Jersey was once split into ____ and ____ and had two capitals until the revolutionary war

New York

New Netherland was a Dutch Settlement that was conquered by the English and renamed ________

Middle Colonies

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

Benjamin Franklin

Persuaded Philadelphia officials to pave streets, organize a fire company, and set up the first lending library in America. He also invented bifocals, the lightning rod, and smokeless fireplace

Bible

Puritans wanted their children to go to school so that they would be able to read this

Rhode Island

Roger Williams left Puritan Massachusetts to start a colony he named Providence which became the capital of ________________

John Smith

Saved Jamestown by getting food from Chief Powhatan and forcing everyone to work if they wanted to eat

Plymouth Plantation

The Pilgrims settled this town; they wanted to separate from the Church of England completely

Society of Friends

The Quakers were also as The _________. They believed that all people, men and women; nobles and commoners; were equal in God's sight

Maryland

The assembly in ___________ passed The Religious Toleration Act to provide freedom to all Christians, but not Jews

John Rolfe

The man Pocahontas married

Roger Williams

a famous Puritan who believed that a person should not be forced to follow a certain religion by its government

50

a law in Massachusetts said that every town that has at least this number of families shall hire a teacher for their children

pilgrim

a person who takes a trip for a religious purpose

tobacco

a profitable crop in the Virginia colony

Glorious Revolution of 1688

also known as the Bloodless Revolution

House of Burgesses

an elected governing body in the colony of Virginia

House of Burgesses

an elected group who makes the laws for the colony of Virginia; started in 1619

Society of Friends

another name for the Quakers

Mayflower

boat the Pilgrims sailed on in 1620

Williamsburg

capital of Virginia where the House of Burgesses met twice a year

Salem

city in the colony of Massachusetts that became famous for its witch trials

Pennsylvania

colony started by William Penn; open not only to Quakers, but to everyone

Quakers

considered as outcasts in the 1600s; belived you could have a relationship with God without a priest or religious governing body;

James II

dethroned in England during the Bloodless or Glorious Revolution and the people ask William and Mary to be the new monarchs

Mayflower Compact

document written by the Pilgrims upon arrival drawing up their plan of government

Blackbeard

famous pirate

Virginia - 1607

first colony founded and the year it was founded in

Providence, Rhode Island

founded by Roger Williams after he had to flee Massachusetts

James Oglethorpe

founded the colony of Georgia and invited those people who couldn't pay their debts in England to come to his colony instead of going to debtor's prison

subsistence farming

growing enough food to provide only for your family

Georgia - 1732

last of the 13 colonies and the year it was founded in

William Bradford

leader of the Pilgrims who would be one of their early governors

Daniel Boone

one of the first American frontiersman who discovered a trail across the Appalachians leading into the modern day state of Kentucky

New York

received its name from the Duke of York after the English took it from the Dutch

Puritans

religious group who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony and wanted to "purify" the Church of England

Philadelphia

site of Pennsylvania's first capital; founded by William Penn

"divine right of kings"

the idea that God (or the church) gives the king the right to govern

50 years

the length of time that the Dutch owned the area we now know as New York

1620

the year the Mayflower set sail

Delaware

this colony was once a part of Pennsylvania

Triangular Trade or slave trade

was the name given to the routes from New England to the West Indies; the West Indies to New England; New England to west Africa; and west Africa to the West Indies where molasses, rum, guns and slaves were transported

1619

year the House of Burgesses is formed


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