13 colonies
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
