Early English Settlements
Anything
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
100
A person who makes a journey for religious reasons.
What is a Pilgrim?
100
A person who agreed to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time.
What was an Indentured Servant?
100

Large farms were not common in the New England colonies because of different geographic features. (Name two)

What was rocky soil and harsh winters.

100
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?
100
A group of these people put in prison for owing money settled in the Southern Colonies (Georgia).
Who were debtors?
200
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?
200
A person who lived with and worked with an artisan's family for several years, learning a skill in order to earn a living.
What is an apprentice?
200

This was the leading industry in New England?

What was shipbuilding?

200

These crops grew well in the Middle Colonies and were exported. They gave these colonies the nickname the "breadbasket" colonies. (Name one)

What is wheat, or grains?

200

This colony was created to make a profit for Cecil Calvert and to be a safe place for Catholics.

What is Maryland?

300
In this document, the signers agreed to make and obey fair laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
300

What was the name for the Slave Trade between Europe, Africa, and the American Colonies called.

What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade (Triangular Trade)

300

These were exports of the New England colonies. (Name two)

What is lumber, dried fish, and ships.

300
This colony was originally called New Amsterdam and founded by the Dutch as a trading post, before being taken over by the English.

What is New York?

300
These made up a large part of the Southern economy.
What is a plantation?
400
This Powhatan tribe member helped the Jamestown settlers.
Who was Phocahontas?
400

This was the part of the Slave Trade between Africa and the American Colonies where slaves where shipped across the Atlantic Ocean in terrible conditions.

What was the Middle Passage?

400

In order to vote in the colony of Massachusetts citizens had to have these requirements. (Name two)

What was male, owned land, and be part of the Puritan Church.

400
A Quaker who helped found the colony of Pennsylvania. He was member of the "Society of Friends".
Who was William Penn?
400
A large number of these were forced to work on the plantations for no pay.
What is a slave?
500
This Wampanoag tribe member helped the Pilgrims in Plymouth.
Who was Squanto?
500

What is the name of the lawmaking body of a colony?

What is an assembly?

500

This group wanted a place to practice their religious beliefs and founded the Massachusetts Bay colony (Salem, Boston)in New England. They wanted to "purify" the Church of England.

Who were the Puritans?

500

This person appointed most of the governors for the colonies, but especially for the colony of New York?

Who is the King of England?

500
These were cash crops exported from the Southern Colonies. (Name two)
What are tobacco, indigo, and rice?
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