study guide for your test over the Colonies
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| Which settlement did the English attack with a fleet in 1664? | New Amsterdam
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| The leg of the triangular trade route in which enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies was known as the | Middle Passage
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| How did England view its North American colonies? | as an economic resource
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| Who wrote Pennsylvania's first constitution? | William Penn
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| In the Southern Colonies, the region of small farms near the Appalachian Mountains was called the | backcountry
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| What was the type of farming practiced in New York? | cash crop
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| Who was the Powhatan chief’s daughter who married an English settler? | Pocahontas
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| Who provided labor for the Southern rice fields? | enslaved Africans
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| Which of these laws was enacted to protect Maryland’s Catholics? | Act of Toleration
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| People who paid for their passage to America with labor were called | indentured servants
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| To prevent an outbreak of war with Native Americans, Virginia governor William Berkeley | made an agreement with them
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| Because their journey had a religious purpose, passengers on the Mayflower called themselves | Pilgrims
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| Which colony offered a fresh start to debtors and poor people? | Georgia
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| Where was the hub of the shipping trade in North America? | New England
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| England’s first permanent colony in North America was named after | King James I
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| Which theory holds that a nation's power depends on expanding its trade? | Mercantilism
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| What was Peter Stuyvesant’s nationality? | Dutch
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| The last of the British colonies to be established in America was | Georgia
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| Which of the following increased interest in science as a way to improve society? | Englightenment
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| Who led the rebellion that eventually opened up Native American land for colonial settlement? | Nathaniel Bacon
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| The movement that led 15,000 Puritans to Massachusetts in the 1630s is called the | Great Migration
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| Which of the following was a cause of the slave trade? | Colonists needed a large labor force to work on their plantations.
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| The British hoped that Georgia would block attacks from | The Spanish in Florida
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| How did most settlers in the Southern Colonies make their living? | farming
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| Which type of farming was practiced in New England? | subsistence
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| What did Squanto and Samoset do? | taught the Pilgrim settlers to live in their new environment
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| Which religious movement in the colonies called for a return to the strong faith of earlier days? | Great Awakening
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| Established clear limits on a rulers power | English Bill of Rights
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| shipping route between three locations | triangular trade
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| people elect delegates to make laws | representative government
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| sell goods to another country | export
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| supplied raw materials to England | colonies
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| heads of colonial households | men
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| producing just enough to meet immediate needs | subsistence farming
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| similar to a small village | plantation
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| the region between the Tidewater and Appalachian Mountains | backcountry
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| first college in the United States | Harvard
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| gave powerful sermons during the Great Awakening | Jonathan Edwards
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| killed many people in the colonies | epidemics
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| passed first public education law | Massachusetts
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| helped students learn to read | horn book
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| landed at Plymouth Rock | Pilgrims
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| country with a feared and powerful Armada | Spain
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| daughter of a Powhatan chief | Pocahontas
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| first permanent English settlement in North America | Jamestown
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| European nation that eventually dominated North America | England
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