Jamestown
This disease-carrying insect plagued early Jamestown settlers because the colony was built on marshy land.
Mosquito
This colonial region had small family-centered communities, a cold climate, and required residents to practice the Puritan religion
New England
Unlike previous forms of slavery, race-based slavery determined status by skin color, was lifelong, and was inherited by this method.
Birth
Under this economic policy, countries believe they should export more than they import and collect raw materials from their colonies
Merchantilism
What famous movie had Michael Myers as the villian
Halloween
This early leader attempted to get Jamestown settlers to work, though he was not very successful.
John Smith
Known as the "breadbasket," this colonial region grew crops like wheat, barley, and rye in its rich, fertile soil
Middle Colonies
Slave traders captured Africans in order to trade them for these three specific goods.
goods, weapons, rum
This policy allowed colonists in the late 1600s and early 1700s to govern themselves, elect assemblies, and create their own taxes and laws
In the classic 1966 animated TV special, Linus van Pelt spends all night waiting in a pumpkin patch for this mythical figure to appear
Great Pumpkin
Only this many settlers survived the first winter in Jamestown due to disease, lack of clean water, and starvation.
35
his religious group, who were the first to settle Pennsylvania, believed that women were equal to men, the poor were equal to the rich, and refused to bow to royalty.
Quakers
On this horrific leg of the journey, enslaved people were held naked below deck, chained closely together, and faced widespread sickness and disease.
Middle Passage
According to the Navigation Acts, colonists were required to sell these three specific raw crops strictly to Great Britain.
sugar, tobacco, cotton
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Kathy Najimy played the witchy Sanderson Sisters in this cult-classic 1993 Disney Halloween movie.
Hocus Pocus
Historians identified three main reasons Jamestown settlers died during their first winter: starvation, disease, and this missing essential resource
Clean drinking water
In the Southern colonies, this governing body was ruled strictly by male property owners
House of Burgess
Name two long-term effects of the slave trade on the continent of Africa.
losing millions of people, the collapse of kingdoms, and increased colonization/warfare
In the Triangular Trade route, raw materials went from the colonies to England, manufactured goods went from England to Africa, and these were transported to the Americas.
captured slaves
Every October, this long-running animated sitcom airs a specialized Halloween installment titled "Treehouse of Horror."
Simpsons
This cash crop became the primary agricultural commodity grown in Virginia
Tobacco
Occurring in the Southern colonies, this historic event resulted directly from growing tensions between rich planters and poor settlers.
Bacon's Rebellion
Name two reasons why African slaves became more common in Jamestown than indentured servants or enslaved Native Americans
cheaper, harder to run away, familiar with European diseases
Under the Navigation Acts, this was required for any goods colonists bought from other foreign countries so Parliament could collect a tax
passing through Britain first
In 1983, Vincent Price provided the ominous closing voiceover narration for this iconic Michael Jackson music video featuring dancing zombies.
Thriller