Vocab
A person who worked for a set amount of years in exchange for passage to the Americas and their eventual freedom
What is an indentured servant?
The evidence that was left when the Roanoke colonists disappeared
What is the word Croatoan carved into a tree/fence pole?
A big farm where enslaved people had to work in the South
What is a plantation?
Explain the main beliefs of the quakers
What is pacifists, no war/violence, equality?
The things pirates commonly stole from ships
What is gold, silver, and valuable trade goods?
A colony ruled directly by the King
What is a Royal Colony?
Name all Southern Colonies
What is Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
The main economic activity of the Southern Colonies
What is agriculture/farming/tobacco?
The land area that was the main cause of the French and Indian War.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
A gathering where fur was sold and traded
What is a rendezvous?
The journey of enslaved Africans to the Americas
What was the Middle Passage?
The reason many Jamestown colonists died within the first few years
What is spending too much time searching for gold and relying on supply ships for food?
The breadbasket colonies who relied on their wheat/grain production for their economy
What are the Middle Colonies?
Explain how guerilla warfare differs from traditional (gentlemen's) warfare
What is relies on surprise, ambush, killing leaders, no rules?
The reason the Salem Witch trials spread
What is fear, hysteria, superstition?
A gathering where trappers and traders bought and sold fur and socialized
What is a rendezvous?
Name all Middle Colonies
What is New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania?
The most important economic activity for the New England colonies
What is fishing and whaling/trading?
Explain what happened to French North American territory as a result of the Treaty of Paris and end of the French and Indian War
What is they had to give it to England/Spain?
Give a reason why European leaders wanted to colonize in the Americas
What is gain natural resources, wealth, expand their empires?
Two part question: must answer both correctly for points
The first people elected in the Virginia Colony who could make decisions for the colony (only free men could vote).
True/False: Slavery was allowed only in the Southern Colonies
What is The House of Burgesses?
What is False?
Two part question: Must answer both correctly for points
Name all New England Colonies
The main use for whaling/whale blubber in the colonies
What is New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Massachusetts
What is lighting lamps/for light?
Two part question: must answer both correctly for points
New York, Boston, Philadelphia, etc. became major trade ports because of this
True/False: Pontiac's Rebellion forced England to leave North America
What is good harbors, access to Atlantic Ocean, rivers, trade routes, etc?
What is False?
2 Part question: Must answer both correctly for points
The reason the Pilgrims left England
The person who led British forces back to Virginia after General Braddock's defeat at Fort Duquesne
What is religious freedom?
Who is George Washington?
Two part question: must answer both correctly for points
Give more than one reason people would want to leave England to come to the colonies
The purpose of the Mayflower Compact
What is religious freedom, the chance to own land, chance at a better life?
What is to create a new form of government since they landed in the wrong place?