Vocabulary Words
Founded by a company. The company is given a Charter to start their colony.
What is a Charter Colony?
What type of colony was Jamestown?
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
What are the New England colonies?
Small wooden homes with usually one room that served as a bedroom, kitchen, and living area for the whole family.
Some had large plantation houses, but that was usually not the case.
What did housing look like for an average colonist? A wealthy planter?
As long as the colonies provided resources and trade, Britain often let them manage local affairs.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Under direct control of royalty.
What is a Royal Colony?
It was the first British colony.
What was the colony of Roanoke?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Very local diets; stuff like corns, beans, and squash. Hunting meals was stuff like wild turkey, rabbit, and different types of fish.
Okra, yams, and rice-growing techniques.
What did the diets of colonists look like? Enslaved Africans?
The government gets its power from the consent of the people.
What is Social Contract?
Given to a single person or group to govern.
The Virginia Company.
What was the name of the company that founded Jamestown?
Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
What are the Southern Colonies?
Farmers, craftsmen, blacksmiths, coopers, printers, shoe-makers, and carpenters. Endless housework: cooking, sewing, cleaning, making candles and soap. Tending to animals, fetching water, or helping in the fields.
Most of the labor on plantations.
What were some jobs for colonists, women, and children? Enslaved Africans?
Pilgrims pledged to create fair laws and obey them for the good of the colony.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
A company in which investors buy stock in return for a share of its future profits.
What is a Joint-Stock Company?
It was the first attempt at forming a colony after the failure of Roanoke.
What was the colony of Jamestown?
Shipbuilding, fishing, lumber, trade, fur trading, or agriculture.
What is a successful industry in the New England colonies?
Highly valued in New England, towns there often required schools, boys attended longer than girls.
Less organized in the Middle Colonies, often run by religious groups.
Limited in the Southern Colonies, wealthy families hired tutors, poor kids and slaves usually had not formal schooling.
What did education look like in the three different colony regions?
Limited government power and guaranteed voting rights for land-owning men, instead of the traditional church members.
What did the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (written by the settlers of Connecticut) do?
A 50-acre grant of land given to colonial settlers who paid their own way.
What is a Headright?
Their leader went back to Britain for supplies, but instead of coming back in 3 months, he came back in 3 years. It could not survive without supplies.
Why did Roanoke fail?
Fur trade, shipping, farming, trade, and small-scale farming.
Tobacco farming, lumber, rice and indigo plantations, and rice and indigo farming.
What is a successful industry in the Middle Colonies? Southern Colonies?
Boys wore breeches (knee-length pants), shirts, and stockings. Girls wore long dresses and aprons.
Shoes were expensive, fancier clothes comprised imported fancy fabrics from Europe like silk, lace, and brightly dyed cloth.
Storytelling, singing, quilting bees, husking parties, homemade toys like wooden dolls, hoops, and marbles and outdoor games like tag.
How did girls and boys dress? What were fancier clothes like?
What did colonists do for fun/recreation?
What was the House of Burgesses? How did it work?