The English Colonies in America

Match the following

• harsh winters

  Puritan

  laws based on Bible

• Pennsylvania

• Anglican church

  indentured servitude

  warm

• Virginia

• self-governing

  various faiths

  Ben Franklin

• Massachusetts

The Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, and town meetings all showed the determination of the colonists to...

• build societies based on religion

• stop indentured servants from coming to America

• govern themselves and solve their own problems

• solve conflicts with the Native Americans

Pennsylvania

Virginians replaced indentured servants with African slaves for all of these reasons EXCEPT:

• Slaves were cheaper to buy than indentured servants

• Africans were hard workers and were used to farming

• Slaves did not gain their freedom after a few years.

• Africans' dark skin made it harder for them to escape to freedom

Most likely the people in Europe who responded to William Penn's fliers came to the colony of Pennsylvania seeking...

• good farmland and the chance to practice the Anglican faith

• work, land, and religious equality

• an escape from a life of indentured servitude

• riches and a shorter route to Asia

The (a)   became the first group of people to start an anti-slavery ​ ​ (b)   ​

• Quakers
• Pilgrims
• compact
• petition.

Which colony was developed most likely due to economic reasons rather than for religious freedom?

• Massachusetts

• Pennsylvania

• Virginia

• all of the above

• none of the above

Match the following

• England's law making body

• House of Burgesses

• William Penn

  religious equality

• consent of the governed

• government power comes from the people

• Great Law of 1682

• Virginia's law making body

• Mayflower Compact

• agreement by the Pilgrims

  (create laws)

• Parliament