A 13 Colony
The Puritans came to the New World in search of what?
Freedom of Religion
Name of (at least two) cash crops grown in the Southern Colonies
Tobacco
Cotton
Indigo
Colony founded as a place for debtors to get a new start
Georgia
Also known as the lost colony, this was Britain's first unsuccessful attempt at colonizing in America.
Roanoake Island
Ocean tha twas crossed to reach the colonies in America.
Atlantic Ocean
The name of the religious group that lived in the middle colonies (think Pennsylvania)
The Quakers
A territory settled by people from another country but controlled by their mother country
Colony
The Mayflower Compact was important because it was a form of this in the colonies.
Representative (Self) Government
Colonies that were originally settled by the Dutch.
New York, New Jersey, Delaware
Technology that helped Europeans explore America
Smaller ships with triangular sails
Maps that helped them explore areas they hadn't been to before
Reasons it was hard to grow rocks in the northern colonies (give at least 2)
Very Cold
Long Winters
Hard, Rocky Soil
Forced to work on plantations from sun up to sun down.
Slaves
Motivation for British colonists to come to America
God, Gold, and Glory
Document approved by the king to allow colonists to explore and claim territory in America.
Charter
Helped to found the colony of Connecticut for religious freedom
Thomas Hooker
Grown for money, not to be used personally (eaten)
Cash Crops
The Puritans were looking for this in the New World
Religious Freedom
The leader of the Rhode Island colony.
Roger Williams
The type of colony where an individual is responsible for the colony.
Proprietary
The effect of the British colonists coming to America and interacting with the Native Americans.
Native Americans got diseases and died.
Worked on plantations to repay their signed contracts
Indentured Servants
Founded the colony of Pennsylvania
William Penn
The leader of the Massachusetts Colony.
William Bradford
Pocahontas
Name of the 13 British colonies in America.
1. Virginia
2. Massachusetts
3. Maryland
4. Connecticut
5. Georgia
6. New York
7. New Jersey
8. New Jersey
9. North Carolina
10. South Carolina
11. Pennsylvania
12. Rhode Island
13. Delaware