Important People
This Jamestown leader made colonists work hard to survive.
Who was John Smith?
These three regions made up the English colonies in North America.
What are the Southern Colonies, Middle Colonies, and New England Colonies?
This agreement helped the Pilgrims govern themselves.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
This forced voyage carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
What was the Middle Passage?
The Pilgrims came to America mainly searching for this freedom.
What is religious freedom?
This Native American woman helped Jamestown colonists and married John Rolfe.
Who was Pocahontas?
The Pilgrims sailed to America on this ship.
What was the Mayflower?
This act gave religious freedom to Christians in Maryland.
What was the Toleration Act?
This cash crop made Virginia rich.
What is tobacco?
Plantation owners wanted enslaved workers mainly because they needed many workers to grow these.
What are cash crops?
This founder of Georgia wanted poor people and debtors to have a fresh start.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
This colony was started as a refuge for Catholics.
What was Maryland?
This was the first example of self-government in the colonies.
What was the House of Burgesses?
This blue-green plant was used to make dye in Carolina.
What is indigo?
Half the Pilgrims died during their first winter because of this.
What are cold and hunger?
This Puritan leader helped found Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who was John Winthrop?
This colony was founded by the Pilgrims in present-day Massachusetts.
What was Plymouth?
In Plymouth Colony, people agreed to follow what the majority voted for. This is called _____ rule.
What is majority rule?
Rice and indigo were important cash crops in this southern colony.
What was Carolina (or South Carolina)?
This Jamestown leader said, “Those who do not work, do not eat,” to encourage colonists to help the settlement survive.
Who was John Smith?
This founder of Pennsylvania believed people should have religious freedom and fair treatment of Native Americans.
Who was William Penn?
This South Carolina harbor city became an important trade center.
What was Charleston?
Only members of this religious group could vote in many Massachusetts Bay towns.
Who were the Puritans?
These workers agreed to work for a number of years to repay a debt.
What are indentured servants?
This disease spread by mosquitoes made rice plantations unhealthy.
What is malaria?