British Colonies

A series of hearings and prosecutions of people accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts in 1692 and 1693

• Red Scare

• Salem Witch Trials

• Puritans

• Witchcraft Hearings of the Plymouth Colony of 1763

Match the following

• Puritans

• The Pope in Rome is the head of this church

• Quakers

• English Protestants who believed in strict religious discipline and the simplification of worship; settlers of Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Catholics

• Church of England

• Anglicans

• A group of religious people that did not have a clergy, believed women were spiritually equal to men, pacifits, and tolerated other faiths 

Match the following

• 1. House of Burgesses 

• Framework for self-government of the Plymouth Colony

• Salutary Neglect

• British policy in early 1700s which allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain was gaining economically 

• Mayflower Compact

•  Representative assembly of colonial Virginia formed in 1619

Match the following

• Joint Stock Company

• A company run by a group of investors who share the company’s profits and losses

• Proprietary British Colony

• English colony that was under direct control of the crown

• Royal British Colony

• English colony granted to individual or group by the crown

Match the items below.

• Enlightenment

• 18th Century movement during which European philosophers believed that society’s problems could be solved by reason and science 

• Salutary Neglect

•  Religious movement in the English colonies during the 1730s and 1740s which was heavily inspired by evangelical preachers- individual salvation 

• Great Awakening

•  British policy in early 1700s which allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain was gaining economically 

 Individual who agreed to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for transportation to the colonies 

• Puritan

• Indentured Servant

• Laborer

• Quaker

Match the following

• Triangular Trade

• The forced transport of enslaved Africans from West Africa to the Americas

• Middle Passage (of the Triangular Trade)

• Economic policy under which a nation accumulates wealth by exporting more goods than it imports

• Mercantilism

• Conflict between English colonists and Native Americans in New England over land

• 1. King Philip’s War

• Three way pattern of trade  that involved England, English colonies, and West Africa