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Colonization Cards
Flashcards for Colonization Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Woman that led her own church meetings. Challenged the leadership of Massachusetts Bay | Anne Hutchinson |
| Famous preacher in the First Great Awakening. Traveled all over the colonies | George Whitefield |
| Founder of the Georgia colony | James Oglethorpe |
| Introduced tobacco and turned it into a cash crop | John Rolfe |
| Provided food for Jamestown. Daughter of a chief leader | Pocahontas |
| Helped Jamestown survive with his leadership. | John Smith |
| Native chief and tribe that helped and fought with Jamestown | Powhatan |
| Governor of Massachusetts Bay, leader of the Puritans | John Winthrop |
| First Great Awakening preacher who preached the sermon named "Sinners in the Hand of an Angry God" | Jonathan Edwards |
| Founder of Rhode Island, allowed religious tolerance | Roger Williams |
| Founder of the Connecticut colony | Thomas Hooker |
| Governor of Plymouth, leader of the Pilgrims | William Bradford |
| Leader of the Quakers that signed a treaty with the Native Americans | William Penn |
| Crops primarily farmed and harvested for a profit. | Cash Crop |
| A person that agrees to work for 7-10 years in exchange for free passage to America, given freedom and land at the end of their contract | Indentured Servants |
| Group of investors that share the profits and losses of a colony | Joint-Stock Company |
| Agreement of the Pilgrims that set up majority rule in their colony | Mayflower Compact |
| Economic system in which a mother country sends manufactured goods to its colonies in exchange for raw materials | Mercantilism |
| The journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas, part of Triangular Trade. The third leg of the Triangular trade. | Middle Passage |
| Laws passed by Parliament that regulated trade in the colonies so that only England benefited. Series of laws that required colonies to only trade with Great Britain | Navigation Acts |
| Ways in which slaves fought back which were obvious. ex. the ran away or rebellion against owners | Overt |
| Ways in which slaves rebelled which were not obvious. ex. they slowed down, broke equipment, faked illness | Passive |
| The type of government in which religious leader make laws and govern | Theocracy |
| A network of trading between the Americans. Europeans, and Africans. Exchanged manufactured goods, raw materials, and slaves. | Triangular Trade |
| Name of a speech given by John Winthrop that says Massachusetts will become an example of religious faith and hard work | City on a Hill |
| Someone that owes mother to another person | Debtor |
| A religious movement that swept through the colonies in the early 1700s. Revival that led to more religious tolerance and more churches. | First Great Awakening |
| First representative government in all of North America, located in Virginia. | House of Burgesses |
| The first successful and permanent English colony in North Continent | Jamestown |
| The name of the colony that the congregationalists (Puritans) established | Massachusetts Bay |
| The Dutch colony that later became New York | New Netherland |
| The religious group that established Pennsylvania. Believed in equality of men and women, slavery was evil and they could experience God through an inner light. | Quakers |
| The religious group that wanted to reform the Church of England (Anglican) while still being in it | Puritans |
| The first colony that established religious freedom | Rhode Island |
| Also known as the Pilgrims | Separatists |
| Native American that helped Pilgrims by showing them how to grow food using fish as a technique | Squanto |
| Founded as a buffer against the Spanish Florida. Also founded as a place for the poor to work off their debt. | Georgia |
| The colony that the separatists (Pilgrims) established for religious freedom | Plymouth |
| Also known as the Puritans | Congregationalists |
| Why did the French want to settle in America? | To trade furs with the Native Americans |
| Why did the Spanish want to settle in America? | To convert more people to Catholicism and import gold and silver |
| The city the French founded | New Orleans |
| The Spanish wanted to become. . . | The most powerful nation in the world |
| The religion of the Spanish | Roman Catholic |
| The name of the time after John Smith left Jamestown | The Starving Time |