Use these terms to fill in the blanks.
Great Awakening
Triangular Trade
Middle Passage
Pennsylvania
Tobacco
Prosper
Enlightenment
Quakers
New Netherland
Puritan
Powhatan
William Penn
Jonathan Edwards
Roger Williams
Choose the correct term to fill in the blank.
1. The ___________________ views and attitudes let them to promote the idea of hard work for
common goals.
2. ___________________ was founded by the Dutch.
3. After leaving the Massachusetts Bay Colony, _________________ founded Providence Colony.
4. A return to the original Puritan vision best describes the goal of _________________________.
5. As Jamestown grew, relations between the settlers and the _______________ people worsened.
6. The leg of the transatlantic trade system that brought slaves to the colonies was known as
_________________________.
7. The __________________ was a movement that emphasized the value of reason.
8. Jonathan Edwards preached during the ______________________ which caused some colonists to
abandon their Anglican congregations and challenged the authority of established churches.
9. The system of trade in which goods and people, including slaves, were exchanged between Africa,
England, Europe, the West Indies, and the colonies in North America was known as
_________________________.
10. ______________________ helped Jamestown become a profitable enterprise.
11. A religious group known as the _________________ held beliefs established in equality, cooperation,
religious toleration, and pacifism.
12. The colony that _____________________________ founded was meant to be a “holy experiment”.
13. The North American colonies in the 1600s were all similar in their need to attract settlers in order to
__________________.
Complete these sentences.
14. Under the ________________________, anyone who paid for passage to Virginia received 50 acres of land.
15. Pilgrims were ________________, who escaped persecution in England and founded the Plymouth Colony.
16. _________________________ founded Providence as a place where people could worship as they chose, not as
the government dictated.
Answer the following questions on the back of this paper or on a separate sheet of paper.
17. What was the original purpose of the Jamestown colony, and what are some of the reasons that the first settlers
failed so miserably?
18. In the colonial period, where were most of the major cities located? How do you explain this fact?
19. What caused English settlers on the frontier to rebel with Nathaniel Bacon?
Answer the following questions below in the space provided.
20. Name the causes of the Salem Witch trials.
21. Define Mercantilism.
22. Define salutary neglect
23. Why were the first English colonies started? (In hopes for achieving what?)
24. Study: Massachusetts Bay Colony- who founded it? Who was banned from there for challenging its authority?