This colony was England's first attempt at a settlement in the New World. It had John White as their governor, and upon his return after 3 years, he discovered this colony completely disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
100
This colony was home to Quakers who believed "all people were equal in God's eyes."
What is Pennsylvania?
100
List 2 economic activities of the New England region (how did they make money?)
1. Fur Trading
2. Trading
3. Lumber
4. Ship Building
5. Fishing
6. Whaling
7. Iron
8. Rum
100
This man led Jamestown through the starving time and help set up alliances with native American tribes.
Who is John Smith?
100
This was the last leg of the Triangular Trade route that was brutal and dehumanizing to millions of Africans.
What is The Middle Passage?
200
This colony almost failed in 1607 due to disease, and lack of farming skills brought by the new colonists.
What is Jamestown?
200
This colony was set up as a safe haven for many Catholics.
What is Maryland?
200
Introduced by John Rolfe in 1617, this cash crop helped make Jamestown successful. Eventually, it made most of the south successful.
What is tobacco?
200
This man led a rebellion in Jamestown because he was tired of being raided (attacked) by natives.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
200
What three continents/places were involved with Triangular Trade?
What is North America, Europe, Africa
300
In 1620, this colony was founded by a group of Separatists seeking religious freedom in the New World?
What is Plymouth?
300
This colony was the first recognize slavery as a legal institution in 1641?
What is Massachusetts?
300
This is why the middle colonies are known as the bread basket colonies.
Wheat and grain were the cash crops.
300
This man introduced tobacco to Jamestown and eventually married Pocahontas.
Who is John Rolfe?
300
How did slaves contribute to the economic success of the colonies? List 2 ways........
1. Built cities
2. Built roads
3. Built monuments
4. Cultivated tobacco
5. Cultivated rice
400
This was the first representative government and legislature setup in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses.
400
These are 2 reasons why people settled in the new colonies?
What is 1) religious freedom and 2) economic reasons.
400
Why did the separatists (Pilgrims) need the Native Americans to show them how to grow crops when they arrived to Plymouth in 1620?
What is the soil was rocky and sandy.
400
This group of people made a choice to come to the new world. They had to work 4-7 years, but had a chance of freedom afterwards.
Who is an indentured servant?
400
What modern day U.S. city was the center of all slave trading?
Charleston, SC
500
This was the period in Jamestown when the Powhatan tribe refused to give the colonists food, and many of the colonists went hungry and died.
What is The Starving Time?
500
This colony was founded to house debtors (people who owed the king money).
What is Georgia?
500
Why did the southern region have more slaves than any other colonial region?
They had a need with a longer growing season, larger plantations, and tobacco and rice crops.
500
This man was elected governor of the Plymouth colony 30 straight times.
Who is William Bradford?
500
The Mayflower Compact, the House Of Burgesses, the Fundamental Orders, and town meetings all show the
determination of the colonists to do what?
What is Self Govern or set up representative governments.