Mercantilism was the economic system employed by Britain and much of Europe.
French navigator and explorer who founded New France.
A corporate colony, or charter colony, was a colony in which a group of people was granted a charter by the crown.
The Virginia Company was a joint-stock company formed to organize a colonial settlement on the coast of North America.
First English explorer to try to find the Northwest Passage.
The first surviving British colony in the New World.
Servants who worked for a set period of time in exchange for land and supplies.
One of the first leaders of the Jamestown colony.
Settler who introduced tobacco to the Virginia colony.
The Chesapeake Bay was the site of the first British colony, Jamestown, and eventually became home to a second colony, Maryland.
The first shipment of tobacco from Jamestown.
The primary labor source in many of the English colonies.
Triangular trade describes the pattern of trade that developed between England, its North American colonies, and Africa.
The Middle Passage refers to the voyage of enslaved Africans from the west coast of Africa across the Atlantic to the West Indies and the Americas: the passage that occurred between the enslaved Africans' journey to the coast from inland sites in West Africa, and their journey to plantations once they arrived in the Western Hemisphere.
The first elected legislative assembly in North America.
The ship that carried the Plymouth colonists to the New World.
The first British colony in New England.
The first English settlers in New England.
Governor of the Plymouth Colony.
A royal colony was a colony under direct ownership and control of the king.
The British colony seized from the Dutch in 1664.
New England colony founded by Puritans.
The first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Chesapeake colony founded as a safe haven for Catholics.
New England colony founded by Separatists in New England.
Founded the Rhode Island colony based on religious freedom.
A violent conflict between New England colonists and the Pequot tribe.
An institution of higher learning to train Puritan clergy.
A Massachusetts Bay exile who argued in favor of antinomianism.
A series of conflicts between royalists and parliamentarians over the structure of the English government.
Lord Protector of the Commonwealth of England, Scotland and Ireland.
English trade laws restricting British and colonial trade with foreign countries.
A policy of the Congregational church granting membership to the children of baptized members.
A mid-Atlantic colony located between the Hudson and Delaware Rivers.
French explorer of the Great Lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.
An uprising of frontier farmers and indentured servants against the leadership of Virginia.
Leader of a rebellion against the government of the Virginia colony.
A war between American Indian groups and colonists in New England.
A rebellion of the Pueblo tribes against Spanish rule.
Founder of the Pennsylvania colony.
A mid-Atlantic colony founded for Quakers by William Penn.
An administrative union of the New England and most mid-Atlantic colonies.
North Carolina was part of a larger proprietary colony called Carolina founded in 1653.
Very different from its northern counterpart, the climate of South Carolina more closely resembled that of the Caribbean.
An incidence of mass hysteria in which 14 women and 5 men were hung for witchcraft.
A religious revival movement that emphasized emotion over intellect.
An American writer, philosopher, inventor and politician.
Benjamin Franklin produced Poor Richard’s Almanac every year from 1732 to 1758.
Indigo, a plant that is used to make a deep blue dye, was one of the most popular crops in colonial Georgia and South Carolina.
The largest slave uprising in the British mainland colonies.
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