2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt 2pt 3 pt 4 pt 5 pt 1 pt 2 pt 3 pt 4pt 5 pt 1pt Vocabulary Governing the Colonies NE, Middle & Southern Colonies Slavery and New Ideas Hodge Podge

the belief that the colonies existed to serve the economic needs of the parent country.

Mercantilism

Recognition that other people have equal rights to differing opinions, especially when dealing with religious beliefs.

Tolerance (Toleration)

Route across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the Americas; it was the route of the African American slave trade

Middle Passage

the upper class of colonial society and included merchants, owners of large farms, royal officials and lawyers.

Gentry

the principle that a person cannot be held in prison without being charged with a specific crime.

Habeas Corpus

This document provided 8 standards, which included Rule of Law, Balance of Power and Due Process, which were incorporated into the U.S. Constitution.

Magna Carta

This legislative body became the first legislature in North America.

House of Burgesses

These laws tried to guarantee more exclusive trade between England & the colonies.

Navigation Acts

Preventing the King from having a standing army during peace time, allowing Parliament to approve taxes, and ensuring Parliament was the law making authority, were all rights given under this document:

English Bill of Rights

The trial of this person led to the idea of Freedom of the Press in the Colonies.

John Peter Zenger

This document was signed by the Pilgrims, before going ashore, where they agreed to make laws for the good of the colony and to obey those laws

Mayflower Compact

A puritan preacher who was exiled and began a new colony around nearby Rhode Island.

Roger Williams

The 4 colonies which made up “The Middle Colonies”

New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey

This English religious group was considered dangerous and radical because they would not swear an oath, pay taxes to the Church of England, or serve in the military

Quakers

South Carolina was settled by Englishmen who had also colonized this area of the world

Barbados

The first slaves were brought to the Americas by these two nations:

Spain and Portugal

This Puritan dissenter was put on trial for not following Puritan laws; she was banished to Rhode Island and later killed in NY during an attack by Native Americans.

Anne Hutchinson

This movement brought a new religious fervor to the English Colonies, and focused on an individual’s direct relationship with God, no priest required.

The (First) Great Awakening

This religious group started the public school system, as we know it, in North America

Puritans

This Colony (and eventually one of the first 13 States) was the location of the first public schools in America.

Massachusetts

The first colleges in the British Colonies were created for this reason:

To educate men so that they could become ministers

The 5 colonies which made up the Southern Colonies

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

She was an enslaved African in Boston, who became a published poet at the age of 14

Phyllis Wheatley

This Colony becomes known as the “Sewer” because it was seen by the Puritans as a dumping ground for unbelievers and religious dissenters

Rhode Island

Spain’s main reason for expanding it’s territory into what is now the SW United States was for this reason:

To protect Mexico from other European Powers

Final Jeopardy Category: Out West

Provide four current cities in the United States which were started as Spanish Missions.

- San Antonio - San Diego - Los Angeles - San Francisco - San Luis Obispo