Roanoke & Jamestown
This was the first English settlement in North America, established on an island off the coast of present-day North Carolina.
What is Roanoke?
The Pilgrims traveled to North America aboard this ship in 1620.
What is the Mayflower?
Pennsylvania was founded by this Quaker who received the land from King Charles II.
Who is William Penn?
This was the first permanent English colony in the Southern Colonies.
What is Virginia?
A document giving someone permission to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
This English explorer helped establish the colony of Jamestown in Virginia.
Who is John Smith?
The Pilgrims created this agreement to establish an organized government before settling at Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware made up this colonial region.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This colony was founded by James Oglethorpe as a place for debtors and as a buffer against Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
A company in which investors purchase shares and share in the profits.
What is a joint-stock company?
Jamestown was established in this year, making it the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is 1607?
This religious group founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in search of greater religious freedom.
Who are the Puritans?
This religious group believed in equality, peaceful relations, and religious freedom and played an important role in Pennsylvania's settlement.
Who are the Quakers?
Large plantations in the Southern Colonies produced cash crops such as tobacco, rice, and this blue-colored crop used to make dye.
What is indigo?
An elected representative who served in Virginia's colonial assembly.
What is a burgess?
This system gave settlers land if they paid their own way to Virginia or paid for another person's transportation.
What is the headright system?
This colony was founded by Roger Williams after he was forced to leave Massachusetts because of his religious and political beliefs.
What is Rhode Island?
The Middle Colonies were known for producing large amounts of this crop, earning them the nickname "breadbasket colonies."
What is wheat?
These large agricultural estates became an important part of the Southern colonial economy.
What are plantations?
A person who agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for transportation to America.
What is an indentured servant?
This crop became Jamestown's major cash crop and helped make the Virginia colony economically successful.
What is tobacco?
Unlike Virginia's economy, New England's economy depended heavily on fishing, shipbuilding, lumber, and this type of commerce.
What is trade?
The Middle Colonies attracted many different ethnic and religious groups because they generally offered greater religious and cultural diversity.
What is tolerance?
Because plantation agriculture required large amounts of labor, Southern colonies increasingly relied on this form of forced labor.
What is slavery?
To mistreat someone because of their religious beliefs or other characteristics.
What is persecute?