New England
Middle
Southern
Life in Colonies
English Influence
100
This colony was the site for much slave trade, founded by Roger Williams
What is Rhode Island?
100
This colony was originally controlled by the Dutch.
What is New York?
100
This colony was one the only one with a major Catholic influence
What is Maryland?
100
The most commonly read book of the time
What is the Bible?
100
The colonists in the American colonies came mostly from this country.
What is England?
200
This was the first colony in America
What is Massachusetts?
200
William Penn was given the Pennsylvania land because the King owed his Dad money, but also because he thought everyone in society should be this.
What is Equal?
200
Tobacco was the crop of this colony, making it one of the wealthiest in America
What is Virginia?
200
This was the coolest kind of party/feast in the early colonies
What is a house raising or barn raising?
200
This document laid out the freedom and liberties of English citizens in 1689
What is English Bill of Rights?
300
This colony was known for hiding its charter (ownership paper) in the Hartford Oak, the colony's symbol of freedom.
What is Connecticut?
300
The Quakers were the founders of this colony, which included the City of Brotherly Love.
What is Pennsylvania?
300
This was originally set up as a colony for debtors that was a barricade between the English and Spanish Colonies in America
What is Georgia?
300
This was the journey for slaves from Africa to the Americas. It included a crowded ship, disease, death and cruel treatment.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
This was the process that took King James off of the throne because he did not want to rule with Parliament.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
400
Massachusetts used this as the guidelines for the laws of its self-governance.
What is the Bible?
400
The man that later became King Jamesshot down the idea of a law making assembly in this colony, but the assembly rebelled and restarted it in 1691.
What is New York?
400
These were the four major cash crops of the South
What are tobacco, cotton, rice, indigo?
400
This was the movement by the Puritans to restore the Colonists' faith in God, telling them that they were all equal in his eyes.
What is the Great Awakening?
400
Social class was determined by this in the Colonies, not just family wealth like it was in England.
What is money?
500
The Puritans that landed in Plymouth made this on the journey over that would serve as the laws of their new settlement/colony
What is the Mayflower Compact?
500
This colony was originially split up between East and West, but we didn't talk about it much in class.
What is New Jersey?
500
Slavery was more prevelant here than in the North because of what?
What is the need for many workers on large plantations/farms. North also saw it cheaper to hire temporary workers and to buy slaves.
500
This is where 9/10 people lived in the early Colonies
What is a small family farm?
500
Each colony had to have one of these to be officially recognized by the English government
What is a charter?
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