Colonial Era: 1607-1759

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____________ ____________ traded goods with European colonists and taught them how to plant and grow corn.

____________ was a figure during the Englightenment who argued for government by the consent of the governed and the natural rights of man.

____________ was a figure during the Englightenment who argued for government by the consent of the governed and the natural rights of man.

African ____________ were forced to migrate to the colonies and did not usually gain their freedom.

As British settlers pushed westward, conflicts with French settlers and Indian tribes caused the French and Indian War, which was won by the ____________ in 1759.

During the Colonial Era, many people acquired a __________ stove to replace the fireplace in their homes. It produced more heat with less wood and smoke.

Charter companies (business ventures) founded colonies for ____________ gain.

European immigrants brought deadly ____________ to North America, which killed many Native Americans.

European nations competed around the world to establish colonies. The ____________ founded New Netherland which was surrendered to the British in 1664.

Groups of people who sought ____________ freedom founded and settled in some of the North American colonies.

Ideas of the Enlightenment and British law, such as the ____________ ____________ and the English Bill of Rights, influenced early colonial governments, which shared power with royal governors.

James and his family left Massachusettes and moved to Maryland for ____________ reasons, as he and his wife were not comfortable in the strict and rigid Puritan society.

Jamestown, Virginia, was the first permanent British settlement in North America. It was founded in the year ____________.

John was a(n) _________________ servant because he agreed to work for 5 years without wages in return for passage to America.

Large farms, called plantations, needed labor to produce ____________ ____________, such as tobacco, indigo, and rice.

Samuel was chosen by the people of his town to create and vote on laws. Samuel is part of a _________________ government.

The ____________ colonies were settled mostly for economic reasons. The slave population grew in the late 17th century.

The ____________ Compact (1620) was a plan for self government in which the Pilgrims promised to obey laws for the good of the colony.

The efficient ____________ slave trade reduced the price of slaves in colonial ports.

The establishment of settlers and traders from a nation in an area outside the nation's boundaries.

The New England colonies were settled mostly by white ___________, who left Europe to reform, or purify, the Church of England.

The Pilgrims arrived in Plymouth Colony in the year ____________.

The Virginia House of Burgesses was the first ____________ lawmaking body formed in the colonies.

This immigrant group came to America to escape persecution and separate from the Church of England.

This immigrant group came to America to escape religious persecution in Europe. Many settled in Pennsylvania.

Thomas Hooker helped create the first constitution in the colonies, which gave all freemen the right to vote: the Fundamental Orders of ____________.