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Learn about key figures and events in Colonial America, from John Smith and Pocahontas to the Boston Tea Party. Explore the cultures, economies, and conflicts that shaped early America.
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When this man married Pocahontas, the daughter of the Powhatan leader, it helped the colonists in Virginia develop more peaceful relations with the natives (at least for some time).
These people signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America. Eventually the demand for workers was greater than the supply of people WILLING to work as servants.
Maryland, which was founded by Catholics, but was soon inhabited by many Protestants, created this bill that made it a crime to restrict the religious rights of Christians, in order to reduce religious tensions.
This Jamestown man, was upset with the governor’s policies toward Native Americans and he also thought that the colonists should be able to take the Indian’s land. When the governor tried to stop him, he and his followers attacked and burned Jamestown.
In Georgia, this man wanted to establish a colony where debtors could make a new start and where there were more small farms as opposed to large plantations – to do this he outlawed slavery and limited the size of land grants.
This Separatist group left England to escape religious persecution, and after spending time in the Netherlands they decided to board the ship called the Mayflower to head to the new world.
This Patuxet Indian helped teach the colonists how to fertilize their soil with fish remains, helping colonial conditions to improve. This led to the first Thanksgiving feast, marking the survival of the Pilgrims.
During the Great Migration between 1629-1640 when many people fled England for the new colonies, this group, led by John Winthrop, believed they had made a covenant with God to build an ideal Christian community – Massachusetts.
Aside from utilizing the rich waters in the New England colonies and exporting dried fish, colonists also began hunting for this animal, which provided valuable oil for lighting (human environment interaction).
In the New England colonies, aside from learning how to read and write in school, the children were simultaneously taught about what?
In regards to climate and lifestyle the middle colonies were a mixture of which two previously established regions?
This group made up the largest religious group in New Jersey and supported equality, nonviolence and religious tolerance.
With the climate in the middle colonies, farmers could grow rich by producing these, crops that are always needed, such as wheat, barley, and oats.
New Netherland (a Dutch colony) that was a competitor of the English for the fur trade was eventually taken over and became this colony (rather easily too, because the colonist were unhappy about Peter Stuyvesant’s rulings and were looking for something better).
In Pennsylvania, William Penn established this type of government, which reflects what its citizens want and need.
New England colonies relied on these to allow people to talk about and decide on issues of local interest – this was hard in the southern colonies because people lived further away from each other.
In the trial of John Peter Zenger for printing a false statement, he was let off the hook because his lawyer said as long as his publications were what, he could print them.
This is a system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade, which is why England founded and controlled American colonies.
Native Americans favored the French in the French and Indian War because, although the British were wealthier, the French showed them this, which was much more important to the natives. The British eventually won this war in regards to it gained more land control.
System in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americans, Britain, and Africa – part of this trade system included a trip of African slaves in what is known as the Middle Passage.
To pay for a standing army to protect the colonists, Parliament started to put these on things that colonists often used.
James Otis and Samuel Adams coined this slogan off of the idea that colonists could not be taxed because they had little influence in Parliament, nor did they have direct representatives in Parliament.
Putting into place this act, which required colonists to pay for an official seal on paper items, was the cause of many colonial courts shutting down and Patrick Henry’s resolutions regarding its violation of colonists’ rights.
In this event, colonists disguised themselves as Indians and dumped a lot of tea into the Boston Harbor after Parliament passed the Tea Act, which allowed the British East India Company to sell tea directly to the colonists.
The most popular method of protesting by the colonists was this, which is where they refused to buy British goods.
