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A religious separatist group that rejected the Church of England and founded Plymouth Colony in 1620.

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  Pilgrims

• Mayflower Compact

• Puritans

• Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

The Mayflower Compact was:

• The idea that all men are created equal

• The name of the charter granted to Virginia by the King

• The name of the journey the Puritans took across the Atlantic

• The covenant community based on Puritan religious beliefs and democracy

The growth of slavery in the Southern Colonies could MOSTLY be contributed to:

• the growth of an agricultural economy based on plantation farming

• The domination of African slave trade by the English

• The invention of the cotton mill

• The growth of indstry

The first elected assembly in the "New World" was the:

• Mayflower Compact in Plymouth

• House of Burgesses in Virginia

• Assembly of Cardinal in St. Augustine

• First Continental Congress in Philadelphia

People who agreed to work on plantations in the South for a period of time to pay for passage to the "New World" would have been called:

• Indentured Servants

• Slaves

• Voluntary Colonists

• Burgesses

The first permanent English Settlement in the "New World" was at:

• St. Augustine

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

• Philadelphia

Virginia and the other Southern Colonies were founded by people primarily:

• Seeking freedom from religious persecution

• Seeking economic opportunity

• Seeking some form of self-government

• Escaping from prisons in England

This war began during James Madison's presidency due to British interference in American shipping

• Mexican American War

• War of 1812

• Civil War

• Louisiana Purchase

What was the Mayflower Compact?

• A document that set up an organized government for the Pilgrims

• A list of religious rules the Pilgrims had to follow

• A map that later showed the hidden fort at Jamestown

• A document that kept the colonies from trading with other countries

Why did Parliament pass the Sugar and Stamp Acts on the colonist?

• to pay for gifts to Native Americans to keep them west of the Appalachians

• to control the kinds of businesses and contracts colonists entered into

• to reverse the effects of the boycott of British goods

• to pay part of the cost of defending the frontier (French and Indian War) and colonial governments