Life in the Colonies
This best describes the climate of the Southern colonies.
What is hot, humid, long growing seasons, etc.?
This is a territory controlled by a distant country or a group of people who settle in a new land while maintaining ties to their original country.
What is a colony?
This is the definition of a cash crop.
What is a crop produced for its monetary value rather than for use by the grower?
This is the defintion of religious tolerance.
What is acceptance for others' religious beliefs even if you don't agree?
In your own words, what were the Salem Witch Trials?
They were series of investigations and persecutions for accused witches in Salem Village, Massachusetts. The evidence rarely made sense and many historians (and modern people) agree that there were no actual witches in Salem.
This best describes the climate of the New England Colonies.
What is short summers, freezing winters, short growing season, etc.?
This is the definition of persecution.
What is targeting someone based on race, religion, gender, beliefs or other similar factors?
This was the main source of labor in the Southern Colonies.
What is enslaved persons/enslaved Africans?
This group of colonists were known for their religious intolerance.
Who are the Puritans?
Describe the relationship between most Native American groups and settlers.
Generally hostile or shaky cooperation. Sometimes traded for furs, etc.
This group of colonies is best known for colonists seeking religious freedoms, trade and harsh winters.
What are the New England Colonies?
This is the definition of a plantation.
What is an estate/farm where crops such as cash crops are grown by (usually enslaved) labor?
Access to these made the Middle Colonies very profitable for trade.
What are waterways/rivers/water/ports?
This region of the 13 colonies is most known for its founders' efforts to seek religious freedom.
Who are the Dutch?
This group of colonies is best known for their religious and ethnic diversity, access to waterways & trade.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Who are the Pilgrims?
This is the reason why the Middle Colonies were also called the 'breadbasket colonies'.
They grew many food crops (wheat, barley, rye)
This group of people, also known as the Society of Friends, believed in equality, were against slavery and disagreed that people had to rely on a church leader for religion.
Who are the Quakers?
This is the group of colonists responsible for the Salem Witch Trials.
Who are the Puritans?
This is the name of the ship that the Pilgrims arrived in the Americas on.
What is the Mayflower?
This is a system where a person receives land, money and control in exchange for bringing 50+ settlers to the Middle Colonies.
What is the patroon system?
Name two examples of cash crops in colonial America.
What are: tobacco, rice, indigo, cotton, sugar, etc.?
This is the name of the first settlement in Massachusetts by the Pilgrims seeking religious freedom.
What is Plymouth?
This is the original name for New York City when it was under Dutch control.
What is New Amsterdam?