England's American Colonies

Question 1

Charter

Answer 1

A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

Question 2

John Smith

Answer 2

English explorer who helped found the colony at Jamestown, Virginia

Question 3

Royal Colonies

Answer 3

English colony that was under direct control of the crown

Question 4

Proprietary Colonies

Answer 4

Colonies ruled by those who had been given land by Britain. Belinged to powerful individuals or Comapnies

Question 5

Lord Baltimore

Answer 5

Catholic owner of the colony of Maryland

Question 6

Puritans

Answer 6

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England.

Question 7

Mayflower Compact

Answer 7

Signed in 1620, this was the first governing document of Plymouth Colony

Question 8

Pilgrims

Answer 8

English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620

Question 9

King Philips War

Answer 9

a conflict between the colonists and the Wopatcong tribe

Question 10

William Penn

Answer 10

Quaker who established Pennsylvania

Question 11

Quakers

Answer 11

Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

Question 12

Indentured Servant

Answer 12

A person who is bonded or contracted to work for another for a specified time

Question 13

Middle Passage

Answer 13

the voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the West Indies and later to North America

Question 14

Mercantilism

Answer 14

belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

Question 15

Staple Crops

Answer 15

crops that are always needed.
Crops that are continuously in demand

Question 16

Cash Crops

Answer 16

a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.

Question 17

Navigational Acts

Answer 17

Under the acts English colonies could only trade with England and other English colonies

Question 18

Magna Carta

Answer 18

A written legal agreement signed in 1215 that limited the English monarch’s power

Question 19

Enlightenment

Answer 19

a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly

Question 20

Great Awakening

Answer 20

a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s

Question 21

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 21

Leader, inventor, printer, and philosopher who secured French alliance

Question 22

Habeas Corpus

Answer 22

the right of an accused person to be brought before a judge and informed of charges filed

Question 23

Roanoke

Answer 23

The _ Colony, also known as the Lost Colony, was established in 1585 on Roanoke Island in what is today’s Dare County, North Carolina.

Question 24

Jamestown

Answer 24

The _ settlement in the Colony of Virginia was the first permanent English settlement in the Americas