Colonization Study Guide

Where The Mayflower actually landed, though they wanted to land near Jamestown:

• Plymouth Rock

• Jamestown

• Middle Passage

Colonies existed to support the mother country:

• Headright System

• Jamestown

• Mercantilism

First rebellion in the colonies:

• Act of Toleration

• Bacons Rebellion

• Salem Witchcraft Trials

This rewarded planters with 50 acres of land for each laborer brought across the Atlantic:

• Headright System

• Middle Passage

• Mayflower Compact

Passed to give religious freedom to all Christians in Maryland:

• Act of Toleration

• House of Burgesses

• Mayflower Compact

A plant that is grown to sell rather than to eat.

• Quakers

• Cash crop

• Mayflower

Born in Boston. Started a printing business opening the Pennsylvania Gazette and by printing Poor Richards Almanac.

• William Penn

• Benjamin Franklin

• Roger Williams

Set up the colony of Pennsylvania, and its capital of Philadelphia, as an escape from religious persecution for his people.

• William Penn

• Benjamin Franklin

• Roger Williams

Religious dissenters in England who were devout pacifist.

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

This is where people were executed with no trial for being accused of being a witch:

• Act of Toleration

• Bacons Rebellion

• Salem Witchcraft Trials