Key Terms
King James granted what to the Virginia Company to form the colony of Jamestown?
Charter
A blank is a crop grown in large amounts to be sold for profit.
Cash Crop
Quaker men refused to become soldiers because they were....
Pacifists
The Jamestown settlers made a profit for their investors by raising...
Tobacco
People who settled in New Jersey and New York came from many different......
Ethnic Groups
What is it called when someone farms enough food for a family to eat and not to sell?
Subsistence Farming
Which colony did cash crops increased the region's profits?
Southern
Indentured Servant
White male property owners
The Middle and Southern Colonies were similar in that...
Farming was an important part of their economies.
Why was New England a good location for the Shipbuilding industry?
The forests provided an abundance of timber for building ships.
Puritans and Separatists journeyed to the Americas because they were....... for their religious beliefs.
Persecuted
How many regions were the 13 colonies divided into?
3
New England merchants mostly profited from the triangular trade by...
Importing sugar and molasses from the Caribbean
What is most associated with the New England Colonies?
Fishing and shipbuilding
Why were Massachusetts and Rhode Island colonies founded?
Religious Freedom