Vocabulary
This document grants the right to form a colony.
What is a charter?
This dangerous New England industry hunted giant sea animals.
What is whaling?
Most enslaved Africans in the colonies lived in this region.
What is the South (Southern Colonies)?
In colonial homes, this area near the fireplace was the "heart of the home."
What is the hearth?
Jamestown was founded in this year.
What is 1607?
Quakers were these people, who refuse to use force or fight in wars.
What are pacifists?
Middle Colony farmers produced large harvests of this grain.
What is wheat?
To pay for the trip to America, this kind of worker agreed to work without pay for a set time.
What is an indentured servant?
This religious revival swept the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s.
What is the Great Awakening?
The Pilgrims landed at Plymouth in this year.
What is 1620?
This type of farming produces just enough food to feed a family, with none left to sell.
What is subsistence farming?
Southern colonists built their plantations near these so they could ship crops to market by boat.
What are rivers?
This voyage was named for being the second, or middle, leg of the triangular trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
New England town meetings were an example of this kind of government, in which citizens make the laws themselves.
What is direct democracy?
The Virginia Company sent this many settlers in three ships.
What is 144? (I WILL ACCEPT ANYTHING BETWEEN 130 - 150)
Settlers who paid their own way to Virginia received this 50-acre land grant.
What is a headright?
Rice made these two colonies the fastest-growing economies in the 1750s.
What are South Carolina and Georgia?
These rules controlled the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans, and some made it illegal to teach them to read.
What are slave codes?
This wooden paddle with lessons tacked onto it helped young students learn to read.
What is a hornbook?
In this year the English took New Amsterdam and renamed it New York.
What is 1664?
In New Netherland, this landowner ruled like a king over the settlers on his land.
What is a patroon?
This hilly, forested region between the Tidewater and the Appalachian Mountains was home to small family farms.
What is the backcountry?
The first group of about 20 Africans arrived in Virginia on a Dutch ship in this year.
What is 1619?
Name either of these two preachers who led the Great Awakening.
Who are Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield?
The last British colony, Georgia, was founded in this year.
What is 1733?