Colonial Regions & Geography
What was the Middle Colonies nickname?
The Breadbasket Colonies
What is the name of the first permanent English Settlement?
Jamestown
What colony was a refuge for Catholics?
Maryland
What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims sailed to America on?
The Mayflower
The trip from Africa to America was called
the Middle Passage
What was the largest colonial city?
Philadelphia
What is John Smith's rule?
If you don't work, you don't eat!
People living in a Puritan colony had
a. many kinds of entertainment
b. little work to do
c. strict rules
d. few rules
c. strict rules
What was the name of the contract written by the Pilgrims?
The Mayflower Compact
James Oglethorpe tried to start a colony in Georgia for which group
poor people
Where did the settlers in the Middle Colonies come from?
What were colonial South Carolina's biggest cash crops?
rice and indigo
Roger Williams believed that religion should be
separate from government.
What is independence?
freedom from the control of a person or group of people
What is debt?
something that is owed, such as money
New England had
a. no harbors but good farmland
b. poor fishing but good timberland
c. poor farmland but good harbors
d. good farmland and good fishing
c. poor farmland but good harbors.
On large plantations, most of the work was done by...
enslaved Africans.
Quakers believed that
all people are equal
What is a contract?
a written or spoken agreement, usually about business
What is a harvest?
the crops collected at the end of a growing season
What city did New Amsterdam become?
New York
What is an indentured servant?
a person who owes an employer a certain amount of work for a certain amount of time in exchange for a benefit
Who founded the Massachusetts Bay?
a person appointed by the king to oversee and make decision in a region or colony
What is a cash crop?
A crop that is grown to be sold