Southern Colonies
This colony was founded at Jamestown in 1607.
What is Virginia?
These English Separatists traveled aboard the Mayflower in 1620 and established Plymouth Colony.
Who are the Pilgrims?
“In this type of colony, the king granted land and governing authority to an individual or group.”
What is a proprietary colony?
The name of the northern colonies in pre-America.
What are the New England colonies?
Name the four Middle Colonies.
What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware?
This crop became especially important to the economies of Virginia and Maryland.
What is tobacco?
This longtime governor of the Plymouth Colony wrote 'Of Plymouth Plantation.
Who is William Bradford?
This type of colony was governed directly under the authority of the English king.
What is a royal colony?
Name the four New England Colonies.
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut?
This Quaker received Pennsylvania in 1681 and promoted broad religious toleration.
Who is William Penn?
These 5 colonies made up the Southern colonies.
What is Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
This group aboard the Mayflower traveling to what would be called Plymouth wanted to purify the England Church.
Who are the Puritans?
This agreement, signed aboard the Mayflower in 1620, established a government and committed its signers to follow laws made for the good of the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
“This New England colony was the smallest of the original 13 colonies by land area.”
What is Rhode Island?
Before England took control in 1664, New York was part of this Dutch colony.
What is New Netherland?
James Oglethorpe helped establish this colony, the last of the thirteen English colonies to be settled.
What is Georgia?
The Pilgrims were this type of Protestant because they believed they needed to separate from the Church of England, while the Puritans generally sought to reform it.
What are Separatists?
This representative assembly was established in Virginia in 1619 and became an early example of representative government in English America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
“Settlers and religious dissenters from this New England colony played important roles in establishing Connecticut and Rhode Island.”
What is Massachusetts?
“Known for religious tolerance and settlers from many different European backgrounds, this colonial region became the most ethnically and religiously diverse in British North America.”
“What are the Middle Colonies?”
These two cash crops became especially important to South Carolina's plantation economy.
What are rice and indigo?
A decade after the Pilgrims established Plymouth, this group arrived there in 1630 in larger numbers and established the Massachusetts colony.
What are the Puritans?
“This type of colony operated under a charter that gave colonists greater freedom to elect leaders and govern themselves.”
What is a charter colony?
Because large-scale cash-crop farming was difficult, New England developed industries such as fishing, timber, trade, and this important ship-related industry.
What is shipbuilding?
“Because they produced large amounts of wheat and other grains, the Middle Colonies earned this nickname.”
“What are the Breadbasket Colonies