Magna Carta

Limits the power of the King John in 1215

Jamestown

First Permanent English Settlement

In 1607

Plymouth

2nd Permanent English Settlement (Religious

Colony) settled by Pilgrims In 1620

Pilgrims

Religious group (Separatists) that settled

Plymouth In 1620

Mayflower Compact

EstablishedSelf-government/Self Rule in 1620

Massachusetts Bay Colony

Religious Colony settled by Puritans In

1630

Puritans

Religious group that wanted to “Purify” the

church of England

Rhode Island

Refuge for Roger Williams, Anne Hutchinson & Quakers

who were kicked out ofMassachusetts Bay Colony

Pennsylvania

“Penn's woods” William Penn took

Quakers to settle this colony

Quaker

Peaceful religious group & treated Native Americans

fairly

Great Awakening

A renewal of religious faith in the colonies

Enlightenment

Movement towards Science to explain

everyday occurrences

Georgia

Refuge for debtors“Buffer” (protective fort) between

French & Spanish territories

Zenger Trial

Court Case that established freedom of the press (1st

Amendment)

Albany Plan of Union

“Join or Die!”Benjamin Franklin warned all 13 colonies to join together to fight

the French

Proclamation of 1763

LAW passed by parliament forbidding colonists to settle WEST of the

Appalachian Mountains

Economies of the Northern Colonies

Fishing, shipbuilding, whaling, timber, Triangular

Trade

Economies of the Middle Colonies

Fishing, shipbuilding, whaling, timber, Triangular

Trade, farming of grain/wheat

Economics of the Southern Colonies

Farming on plantations (Large Farms)

Before 1650 – Indentured Servants

After 1650 - African slaves

Cash crops of the Southern Colonies

Rice, tobacco, indigo

COTTON

Main Cash Crop of the South during the

1800s