13 English Colonies

What did American settlers begin to develop a unique national identity based on?

Democratic ideals

Why did the colonies remain along the coast?

The settlers came from the Atlantic Ocean

Who founded the Providence Plantation in the Rhode Island Colony?

Roger Williams

Who founded Portsmouth in the Rhode Island Colony?

Anne Hutchinson

Who founded Hartford in the Connecticut Colony

Thomas Hooker

What was the name of the first permanent English settlement?

Jamestown

What did the Pilgrims want?

They wanted to leave the church of England because they no longer shared its believes and practices

What did the Puritans want?

They wanted church reforms to get rid of Catholic elements

What were the Navigation Acts?

They were laws that taxed colonists and didn’t let them sell their products to any country other than England

Who passed the Navigation Acts

The English government

When did the Navigation Acts take place?

1651 and 1660

Why were the Navigation Acts created?

To show how committed England was to mercantilism and to make England money

What were Thomas Hooker’s honorary titles?

“father of Connecticut” and “father of American democracy”

What colonies were part of New England?

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

What colonies were in the mid Atlantic?

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

What were the southern colonies?

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia

What was the primary significance of the Mayflower Compact?

It established a foundation for self-government

Why was the Virginia House of Burgesses historically important?

It was the first legislative assembly of elected representatives in the North American colonies

Why was the Mayflower Compact important?

It was an agreement in which colonists created their own rules for government.

How did New Netherlands become New York?

Soldiers forced the Dutch to surrender it

Why were the rules made at the town meetings in the Massachusetts Bay Colony important?

They were some of the first examples of American Democracy

Why did white landowners in the Virginia Colony force enslaved Africans to work in the tobacco field?

They wanted to meet the high demand for labor to produce tobacco

Why did Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson get banished from the Massachusetts colony?

Intolerance to challenges of Puritan beliefs

Who did Thomas Hooker think should have the right to vote?

all men

What was one major reason that William Penn founded Pennsylvania?

To establish a colony to practice faith without interference from the government

What is mercantilism?

An economic policy where a nation can increase its wealth by creating and trading with colonies