Roanoke & Jamestown
What word did John White find carved at Roanoke?
CROATOAN
In what year did the Pilgrims arrive at Plymouth?
1620
What was the main settlement of New Netherland?
New Amsterdam
What cash crop helped Virginia's economy grow?
Tobacco
What is a cash crop?
A crop grown mainly to sell for profit.
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607?
Jamestown, Virginia.
What was the difference between Puritans and Separatists?
Puritans wanted to reform the Church of England, while Separatists wanted to separate from it completely.
In what year did the English take control of New Netherland?
1664
Why was Maryland founded?
It was founded partly as a refuge for English Catholics.
What type of farming produces enough food mainly to feed a family?
Subsistence farming
What was the Starving Time?
The winter of 1609–1610, when hunger and disease killed many Jamestown settlers.
What agreement helped establish an organized government at Plymouth?
The Mayflower Compact
Who founded Pennsylvania as a place offering greater religious freedom?
William Penn
Who led the 1676 rebellion against Virginia's governor, William Berkeley?
Nathaniel Bacon
What was the Middle Passage?
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What was a headright?
A system that granted land to people who paid for their own passage or another person's passage to Virginia.
Who helped the Pilgrims learn to grow crops and survive in their new environment?
Squanto
What does it mean that Quakers were pacifists?
They opposed war and violence.
What two crops became especially important to South Carolina's economy?
Rice and indigo.
What were slave codes?
Laws that controlled enslaved people and restricted their rights and freedom
Give two reasons Jamestown became more successful than Roanoke.
Jamestown received continued support
Developed stronger organization
Grew profitable tobacco
What colony did Roger Williams help establish, and what belief did he support?
Rhode Island; he supported religious freedom and separation of church and state.
Give one reason the Middle Colonies grew and prospered.
Fertile farmland, natural harbors, trade, immigration, and religious freedom. Any two valid reasons earn credit.
What was one goal the British had when establishing Georgia?
To strengthen defenses against Spanish Florida
Provide opportunities for some poor people and debtors.
Strengthening British power.
Explain how geography caused the Southern Colonies to develop economically.
The South's warm climate, fertile land, and long growing season supported cash crops and plantations.