The Thirteen Colonies

 The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising

• tobacco

• corn

• wheat

• cotton

Protestants who left the Anglican Church and established their own churches were called

• New Anglicans

• Separatists

• Puritans

• Catholics

What did Bacon’s Rebellion prove to the government?

• The people would always give in to the government.

•  Native Americans could win great victories against the colonists.

• 1. The government could not ignore the demands of the people.

•  There would always be peace between colonists and Native Americans.

Why was the House of Burgesses important?

• It created the first written constitution

• It pledged loyalty to the Mayflower.

• It was written by William Penn and gave people religious freedom.

• 1. It was the first legislature in North America elected by the people.

Which development led to the other three?

• Native Americans dying from new diseases

•  Jamestown was founded

  
  

• Tobacco was cultivated and sent back to Europe for trade

  
  

• Columbus landed in the “New World”

  
  

A group of people that wanted to reform the Anglican Church.

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

• Separatists

• Catholics

 A laborer that agreed to work for a set period of time 

    in exchange for a free trip to the colonies.

• debtor

• indentured servant

• burgesses

• Anglican

A situation in which investors buy into a colony in return for a share of the profits.

• Mercantilism

• Headright System

• Joint-Stock Company

• Confederacy

Mercantilism can BEST be described as

• economic trade policy in which a country exports more than it imports in order to create a favorable balance of trade

• religious policy in which European countries established missions in the New World

• alliance system used by European nations to maintain peace with the Native Americans of the New World

• political structure implemented by European nations that divided society into a very rigid class system of haves and have nots

What was the first English settlement in North America?

• Roanoke Island

• Salem, Massachusetts

• Plymouth, Massachusetts

• Jamestown in the colony of Virginia