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John Rolfe
________ introduced a new type of tobacco that sold well in England.
Samuel Adams
________ urged Boston to form a Committee of Correspondence which was a group organized to promote resistance to Britain.
John Smith
________ took control of the colony in 1608 and Jamestown fared better under his control.
1773
Parliament passed the Tea Act of ________ which gave the struggling British India Company a virtual monopoly on the tea trade.
Plymouth Rock
In late 1620, the Pilgrims landed at ________ in present- day Massachusetts.
Parliament
________ passed the Sugar Act of 1764 to gain money to help pay for protecting the colonies.
rice
Tobacco, ________, and indigo were the most important cash crops.
Squanto
________ and Samoset were two native Americans who helped the Pilgrims get settled and taught them how to fertilize soil with fish remains.
Fur trade
________ was important to the economies of both colonies.
Cecilius Calvert
________, the second lord of Baltimore, intended the colony to be a refuge for English Catholics.
Mayflower
On September 16, 1620, the ship called the ________ left England filled with over 100 colonists.
Marquis de Montcalm
________ was a French commander that launched an immediate attack.
Committee of Correspondence
The ________ were important because they alerted the colonists to British threats on liberties throughout the colonies.
James River
Jamestown: was located 40 miles up the ________ in Virginia; it was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
Pilgrims
________: were one Separatist group who left England to escape persecution.
Peter Stuyvesant
________ led the colony beginning in 1647 of New York.
Nathaniel Bacon
________ opposed the governors policies which promoted trade with the American Indians.
Georgia
________ was founded by James Oglethorpe.
Maryland
________ was a proprietary colony.
George Carteret
________ and John Barkley were the Dukes of New Jersey.
William Pitt
________ was the secretary of state for the British, and he replaced older generals with younger, more talented ones.
Slave code
________: laws to control slaves.
New England
In ________, the center of politics was the town meeting.
Immigrants
________: people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country.
Pocahontas
________: was the daughter of the Powhatan leader.
Britain
________ gained control of Canada and received Florida from Spain, which was a French ally.
Smith
________ made an agreement with Powhatan Confederacy of Native Americans.
New Jersey
Quakers: one of the largest religious groups in ________.
Town meetings
________: people talked about and decided on issues of local interest, like paying for schools.
eighteenth century
In the ________, France and Britain were the two leading European powers.
Mayflower Compact
The ________ was a legal contract in which the people agreed to have fair laws and to protect the general good.
Stamp Act
The ________ of 1765 required colonial businessmen and lawyers to purchase special stamps and place them on items that were taxed.
Indian War
The French and ________ was also known as the "Seven Year War "in Europe.
General James Wolfe
________ was a British general who besieged the city of Quebec.
Sugar Act
The ________ placed duties (taxes on imported goods) on such items as sugar, molasses, coffee, silks, and indigo.
Puritans
________: were a protestant group who wanted to purify, or reform the Anglican Church.
William Penn
________ formed his colony of Quakers.
Dominion of New England
In 1686, he (James II) united the northern colonies under one government called the ________.
Headright System
The ________ was started by the London Company.
Carolinas
The ________ started as one colony but separated into North and South in 1712.
Capital of Penns colony
The ________ was Philadelphia which means "the city of brotherly love.
Maryland
________ is located just North of Virginia.
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