Colonial Regions
These three regional colonies were the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies.
What are the three colonial regions?
This 1619 assembly in Virginia was the first representative legislature in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
These workers agreed to work for a set number of years in exchange for passage to America.
What are indentured servants?
Large farms that grew cash crops using enslaved labor were called this.
What are plantations?
This Quaker leader received a charter from King Charles II to establish Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire were part of this colonial region.
What is New England?
Signed in 1620, this document established self-government for the Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Unlike indentured servants, these workers were forced to work for life with no freedom.
What are enslaved people (or slaves)?
This plantation system dominated South Carolina's economy.
What is the plantation system?
This was the total number of English colonies established along the Atlantic coast.
What is 13?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware made up this colonial region.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This document granted colonists the right to establish Jamestown in 1606.
What is the Virginia Charter?
This horrific voyage brought enslaved Africans to the Americas across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
Tobacco, rice, and indigo were these types of crops grown for profit.
What are cash crops?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire were part of this region.
What are the New England Colonies?
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were part of this region.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The Mayflower Compact was an early example of this type of government, where people agree to govern themselves.
What is self-government (or democracy)?
This labor system became the foundation of the Southern colonial economy.
What is slavery?
This cash crop made Virginia wealthy and was the reason Jamestown survived.
What is tobacco?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware made up this colonial region.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This Caribbean island influenced slavery practices in the Southern colonies.
What is Barbados?
The House of Burgesses was significant because it was the first example of this type of legislature in the English colonies.
What is a representative legislature (or representative government)?
These wealthy landowners controlled the plantations and held most of the political power in the Southern colonies.
Who are the planter class (or planters/plantation owners)?
Rice and this blue dye plant were two other major Southern cash crops besides tobacco.
What is indigo?
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia were colonies in this region.
What are the Southern Colonies?