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Colonies Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| William Penn was a Quaker who founded | Pennsylvania |
| This group supported religious freedom | Quakers |
| Colony for debtors; colonists were also hoping this colony would be a "buffer" between English colonies and the Spanish | Georgia |
| Originally called New Amsterdam & settled by the Dutch | New York |
| 1st permanent English settlement in North America led by John Smith | Jamestown |
| the "lost" colony | Roanoke |
| Massachusetts was controlled by this group | Puritans |
| 1st written constitution | The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| Someone who worked for another to pay off passage to North America | indentured servant |
| separated Middle Colonies & Southern Colonies | Mason-Dixon Line |
| Cash crop of Jamestown | tobacco |
| purchased from the Native Americans by the Dutch East India Company | Manhattan Island |
| this country owned most of the land around the Great Lakes and west of Appalachian Mountains | France |
| religious toleration | allowing others to freely practice their religion |
| how colonists transported goods | waterways |
| representative government in Jamestown | House of Burgesses |
| written aboard the Mayflower, this agreement between the Pilgrims and the the strangers started the idea of self-government | Mayflower Compact |
| colony settled by the Pilgrims | Plymouth |
| colony established by Roger Williams to separate church & state | Rhode Island |
| colony established by the Calvert family as a haven for persecuted Catholics | Maryland |
| New England Colonies | Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut |
| Middle Colonies | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware |
| Southern Colonies | Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| mercantilism | trading system that benefits the mother country; mother country tells colonies what to make |
| Triangular Trade | trade from Europe, Americas, and Africa |
| Middle Passage | brought slaves from West Africa to the West Indies |
| imports | goods going into a country |
| exports | goods leaving a country |