Vocabulary
a part of a body of water that is next to land and provides a safe place for ships to anchor
What is a harbor?
New England had poor ______ but good ______.
New England had poor farmland but good harbors.
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
James Ogelthorpe tried to start Georgia for this class of people.
Who were debtors?
People living in a Puritan colony had these.
something that is owed, such as money
What is debt?
New Amsterdam.
What is the former name of New York City?
This colony began as a refuge for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
A crop that is grown to be sold
What is cash crop?
This group founded the Massachusetts Bay colony.
What are Puritans?
a written or spoken agreement, usually about business
What is a contract?
What are
The ship that the Pilgrims sailed to America on.
What is the Mayflower?
The people who did most of the work on large plantations.
Who were enslaved Africans?
This is what the Quakers believed.
What is "all people are created equal?"
a person appointed by the king to oversee and make decisions in a region or colony
What is a Governor?
The contract that the Puritans made.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The name of the trip from Africa to America.
What is the Middle Passage?
the ability to practice any religion without fear of punishment
What does “Freedom of Religion” mean?
the crops collected at the end of a growing season
What is harvest?
List of the New England colonies.
What are:
The nickname for the Middle colonies.
What was the "Breadbasket Colonies?"
These were South Carolina's biggest cash crops.
What are rice and indigo?
What is "separate from the government?"
a person who owes an employer a certain amount of work for a certain amount of time in exchange for some benefit
What is indentured servant?
This city was the largest in the thirteen colonies.
What is Philadelphia?
Settlers in the Middle colonies came from these countries.
What are Germany, The Netherlands, and Sweden?
The three reasons people came to the new world.
What are
A person who follows the teachings of a Christian Church that separated from the Catholic Church
What is a Protestant?