Types of Colonies
A written agreement from the King of England, giving permission to a person or group to settle in a certain area.
What is a charter?
The colonies that make up the New England colonies.
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut?
The colonies that make up the Middle Colonies
The colonies that make up the Southern Colonies.
What are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
A large farm on which crops were grown and then sold for profit; owned by people who relied on enslaved people to do all of the work for no pay.
What is a plantation?
The person who gave out charters, controlled royal colonies, chose leaders, and could take back control of a colony if he did not like how it was being run.
Who is the King of England?
It was difficult to do in the New England colonies because of long winters and rocky soil.
What was farming/growing crops?
Ways middle colonists made their living. (At least 2)
(At least 2) What is farming, fishing, logging, shipbuilding, skilled work like carpentry?
It was easy to do in the Southern Colonies because of the fertile soil and warm temperatures.
What was farming/growing crops?
Deep body of water protected by land on several sides.
What is a natural harbor?
What is a Royal Colony?
The name of the place where the first public school was started in 1635.
Word to describe the climate of the Middle Colonies.
What is mild? (OR: Not too hot/not too cold. Cold winter/rainy summer.)
Georgia was named after this person.
Who was King George ll?
People who owe money.
What is a debtor?
Type of colony started by a person or group of people who received a charter and land directly from the king, usually because of their relationship with the king.
What is a proprietary colony?
The name of the man who was forced to leave Massachusetts because of his ideas, and started his own group to found a town that would end up being part of Rhode Island.
Who was Roger Williams?
Four groups of people with different religious beliefs that came to the Middle Colonies.
Who were the Quakers, Catholics, Jews and Muslims?
The name of the very first permanent English settlement in North America, established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
People who grew only enough food to feed themselves.
What is a subsistence farmer?
Type of colony started by a company or group of people who had help from investors.
What is a joint-stock colony?
Things that were possible because of the harbor. (at least 2 examples)
What is fishing, whaling, trading, or docking ships? (at least 2)
The group from the Netherlands that founded the settlements that led to the formation of Middle Colonies in the early 1600s.
Who are the Dutch?
The colony named in honor of the Queen of England.
What is Maryland?
Crop grown by farmers that produced enough to feed themselves and their families, PLUS enough to sell for profit.
What is a cash crop?