13 Colonies
Georgia was established for what reason
debtor's prison
Pilgrim's governing document that ensured religious freedom
Mayflower Compact
group of explorers looking for "cities of gold"
Spanish
first Frenchman to sail to the Gulf of Mexico
LaSalle
land claimed and settled by a foreign country
colony
colonial region that depended on slavery and cash crops
Southern
name of the Pilgrim's ship to America
Mayflower
first permanent Spanish settlement in the New World
St. Augustine
difference between slaves and indentured servants
slaves are never free
founder of Pennsylvania
William Penn
Regions of the 13 colonies
New England, Middle, Southern
English citizens who split from the Church of England
separatists
autumn harvest feast celebrated by the Pilgrims and Native Americans
Thanksgiving
leg of the triangle trade that shipped Africans in cramped ships chained to the Americas for slave labor
Middle Passage
What the British renamed the Dutch colony that they took over
New York
Crop that saved Jamestown
tobacco
religious group that wanted to "purify" the Church of England
Puritains
civilization conquered by Cortez
Aztecs
trade of goods and humans between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
triangle trade
name of the Dutch settlement in the New World
New Netherlands
colonial region known as the "bread basket colonies"
Middle
first permanent British settlement in the New World
Jamestown
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French set up trading posts along this river
Mississippi
Dutch governor of New Netherlands colony; purchased Manhattan from the Native Americans
Peter Minuit