Colonial Era Power Point review

1. Colonial Era Power Point review By Miss D

2. The immigrants from England who were blown off course by a storm and landed in Cape Cod were called the Pilgrims

3. The Colony established by Roger Williams and a woman for reasons of religious freedom was • Rhode Island

4. The man who “saved” Jamestown from extinction by saying only those who worked could eat was • John Smith

5. The theory that if a country’s wealth increased, all other country’s wealth decreased was called • Mercantilism

6. The war between the Native Americans and the Puritans was called • King Philip’s War

7. The portion of the triangular trade that brought slaves to the New World was called the • Middle Passage

8. New York The English take the city of New Amsterdam away from the Dutch and call it New York city Bread basket of the colonies along with Philadelphia

9. The Puritans established the • Massachusetts Bay Colony

10. The English seized the island at the base of the Hudson River’s mouth and called it • New York city

11. Indian tribal chief who gave the Jamestown colonists food and helped them survive was called • Powhatan

12. Why were the Puritans called Dissenters? • Because they disagreed or dissented with the Church of England and wanted to change or purify its worship practices

13. The breadbasket of the colonies • New York and Philadelphia

14. Montesquieu and Locke • Two Enlightenment philosophers who greatly influenced the colonists and especially Thomas Jefferson in writing the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution

15. Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield • Two men who preached a religious revival across the colonies that changed the Puritan face of the New England colonies and started the movement towards freedom from Britain • Called the Great Awakening

16. The Americas, Africa, England • The trading points of the triangular trade Europe The Colonies Africa

17. Proprietary Colony • Georgia • Delaware

18. Royal colony • Massachusetts Bay Colony • Jamestown

19. Joint stock company • Economic tool just like stocks on Wall Street • Used by Virginia Company to raise money by selling shares to fund the journey to Virginia

20. Tobacco • The crop that saved Jamestown from starvation and extinction when they could not find gold

21. first elected legislative assembly in the New World • House of Burgesses

22. Religious colonies • Massachusetts Bay Colony • Plymouth • Maryland

23. House of Burgesses Located in Virginia

24. Middle Passage • The middle portion or passage of the triangular trade that carried slaves from Africa to the New World

25. Peter Stuyvesant • Cranky, Stubborn last Dutch governor of New Netherlands who found he was going to be fighting the English almost single handed so he surrendered New Amsterdam to them without a fight and they changed the name to New York and everyone ate donuts and was happy

26. New Amsterdam • Name for the Dutch city at base of Hudson river . Later English take it without a fight and called it New York city.

27. first permanent English settlement in the New World • Jamestown

28. Mercantilism • Countries wealth is measured in gold and silver • Country with the most gold and silver is the richest • Colonies are the way to increase wealth • Use colonies’ resources to increase mother country’s wealth

29. Buffer colony • Georgia • buffer or bumper between South Carolina’s great port of Charleston and Spanish Florida’s pirates and raiders

30. Nathaniel Bacon • He led a group of indentured servants against the Indians and took away their land for themselves but then he got greedy and tried to take away the plantation owner’s lands in Jamestown • His bacon was fried after he led an unsuccessful revolt against Jamestown’s landowners • Did burn some of Jamestown down ( can you smell that bacon burning?) • After Bacon’s rebellion, Jamestown colonists began to buy slaves. No more indentured servants

31. Mayflower compact established what? Pilgrims made it on the Mayflower ship • Beginning of rule or laws made by the governed which is the beginning of representative government

32. Why did the English colonists begin to use slaves • Bacon’s rebellion scared them against indentured servants • Slaves never get their freedom like indentured servants and so believed less likely to revolt

33. Two founders of Rhode Island? • Roger Williams • Anne Hutchinson

34. John Cabot • Explorer working for England who explored Canada, the Northwest passage and Chesapeake Bay • Gave England their first claim to North America

35. Vespucci • Gave his name to America (Amerigo)

36. The Holy Experiment Philadelphia founded, by William Penn, the Quaker, on principle of brotherly love

37. group that settled Maryland to escape religious persecution • English Roman Catholics

38. Group settled Pennsylvania • Quakers

39. Dutch colony in North America • New Netherlands

40. Resources • What colonies send to the mother country so she can use them to increase her wealth of gold and silver by selling them to others or making items with them that she can sell for gold and silver • Part of the theory of mercantilism • Example-timber from New England to make ships in Britain

41. John Locke • Enlightenment philosopher that influenced the colonists and especially Thomas Jefferson by saying that people had a right to revolt if they were being abused by their mother country • Rights to life, liberty and property

42. Three ways that representative democracy grew in colonies • Mayflower compact • House of Burgesses • Town meetings

43. Three steps toward democracy in colonies • House of Burgesses • Town meetings • Mayflower compact

44. Who limited colonies’ trade with other nations and why? • The mother country because she wanted all the colonies’ riches for herself. • Mercantilism said that there was only so much wealth in the world and a country had to keep as much of it ,as it could, to itself

45. Great Awakening • Great religious revival that changed the religious face of the colonies with its emphasis on freedom and free will • Led by Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

46. Where did the Puritans settle New England

47. Colony Built on Smoke • Jamestown

48. Ben Franklin • Symbol of the ideal colonist • Symbol of American ingenuity and social mobility • Scientist, inventor, printer, politician, printer, diplomat, writer, • Invented bifocals, lightening rod, swim fins • One of the main leaders of the American Revolution

49. Who had more peaceful relations with Native Americans and why • Quebec and fur trade • Philadelphia and concept of brotherly love

50. Joint stock company • How the colony at Jamestown was funded • Virginia Company