Early Settlements
A person who makes a journey for religious reasons.
What is a Pilgrim?
A person who agreed to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time.
What was an Indentured Servant?
This group wanted a place to practice their religious beliefs and founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England. They wanted to "purify" the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
This was a group that settled in the Middle Colonies and believed that all people were equal. They refused to fight wars.
What were the Quakers.
A group of these people put in prison for owing money settled in the Southern Colonies (Georgia).
Who were debtors?
This was a leader of Jamestown that improved their conditions by making the rule "If you don't work, you don't eat."
Who was John Smith?
The first permanent English settlement.
What is Jamestown.
This was the leading industry in New England.
What was shipbuilding?
These crops grew well in the Middle Colonies. They were known as the "breadbasket" colonies. Name Two.
What are wheat, corn, and rye.
He founded Georgia to help debtors pay back their debts.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
In this document, the signers agreed to make and obey fair laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Crops that are always needed.
What are staple crops?
These were exports of the New England colonies. (Name two)
What is lumber, dried fish, whale oils, furs, and grain?
Ben Franklin lived in this city and worked to improve it.
What is Philadelphia?
These made up a large part of the Southern economy.
What is a plantation?
This Powhatan tribe member helped the Jamestown settlers.
Who was Phocahontas?
A system in which goods and slaves were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade?
These two leaders started settlements that joined to become the Rhode Island Colony.
Who were Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
Who was William Penn?
A large number of these were forced to work on the plantations for no pay.
What is a slave?
What happened to the people who first arrived in Jamestown?
2/3 of the people died.
A movement which took place during the 1700s that spread the ideas that reason and logic could improve society?
What is the Enlightenment?
Name a colony located in New England.
What is New York, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts.
This word means to accept religious differences.
What is tolerance?
These were cash crops exported from the Southern Colonies. (Name two)
What are tobacco, indigo, and rice?