Vocabulary
What does debtors mean?
Poor people who owed money, but could not pay.
What is letting people have different beliefs called?
tolerance
Who helped build peace between the English and Powhatan peoples and later married John Rolfe?
Pocahontas
What was the first successful English Colony?
Jamestown
What was one of the cash crops in the Southern Colonies?
tobacco, rice, or indigo
What is indigo?
A plant used to make blue dye for cloth.
What were rich Dutch landowners who owned a lot of land and had workers called?
patroons
What colony did Roger Williams help start?
Rhode Island
Thomas Hooker helped start which colony?
Connecticut
Which colonial area had fertile soil helped farmers grow large amounts of grain and other crops to sell?
Middle Colonies
What is an official document from the king that gave a company permission to start a colony?
charter
What does enforce mean?
Making sure people follow the rules.
William Penn started Pennsylvania as a safe home for which group of people?
Quakers
What colonies make up the New England Colonies?
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire
Which colonial area practiced subsistence farming and made money through fishing, shipbuilding, and trade?
New England Colonies
What does investigate mean?
to search for clues
What is a rule or plan that people follow?
policy
Nathaniel Bacon fought the which colony's government because he thought eastern leaders had too much power?
Virginia
Which colonies make up the middle colonies?
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
Which colonial area had warm climate supported plantations?
SouthernColonies
What are laws that controlled the lives and actions of enslaved people?
slave codes
What was the trade route that connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
Triangular trade
Which two Native Americans showed the Pilgrims how to grow food, hunt, and fish?
Squanto & Samoset
Which colonies make up the Southern Colonies?
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
What is enslaved labor?
Southern plantation owners forced enslaved Africans to work in fields and homes.