1st 13 Colonies
These servants signed a contract to work for four to seven years for those who paid for their journey to America.
What is an indentured servants?
the first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
laws to control slaves
What is slave codes?
Livestock farmers probably lived in this colonial region.
What is Middle Colonies?
Name the Middle colonies
What is New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware?
On May 14, about _________ miles up the James River in Virginia, the colonists founded Jamestown,
What is 40 miles?
in this system a colonist could earn another 50 acres for every additional person brought from England.
What is the Headsystem?
people who have left the country of their birth to live in another country.
What are immigrants?
In 1606, the king issued the First Virginia Charter that gave the company permission to settle in a region
What is Virginia?
The came ____________ to America to avoid religious persecution.
What is the Pilgrims and Puritans?
this ship left England with more than 100 men, women, and children aboard.
What is the Mayflower?
Many farms grew ___________ that were sold for profit.
What is cash crops?
a group that left England in the early 1600s to escape persecution.
What is Pilgrims?
the principal's first name?
What is Clayton?
This cash crop makes blue dye
What is indigo?
These economic, political, and religious problems in England led to the
What is Great Migration?
a legal contract in which they agreed to have fair laws to protect the general good
What is the Mayflower Compact?