Chapter Three - The English Colonies

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.