Jamestown and Plymouth
Vocabulary
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
This group wanted a place to practice thier 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?
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

This type of large-scale farm was common in the Southern colonies and relied heavily on enslaved labor to grow cash crops like tobacco and cotton. 

What is an plantation?

200

This type of farming was practiced by families who grew just enough food to meet their own needs, rather than for profit.

What was subsistence farming

200

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

What are wheat, corn, and rye?

200
He founded Georgia to help debtors pay back their debts.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
300
In this document, the signers agreed to make and obey fair laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
300
All the buisnesses that make one kind of product or offer one kind of service.
What is an industry?
300
These were exports of the New England colonies. (Name two)
What is lumber, dried fish, whale oils, furs, and grain?
300

This outspoken Puritan woman was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for challenging church authority and promoting religious freedom.

Who is Anne Hutchinson

300

Why did the Virginia Company found Jamestown?

What is for a profit.

400

This colonial printer was put on trial in 1735 for criticizing the New York governor, and his acquittal helped establish the principle of freedom of the press.

Who is John Peter Zenger

400

In a famous sermon, Puritan leader John Winthrop described the Massachusetts Bay Colony as this, symbolizing a model society that others would look up to.

What is a “City Upon a Hill”

400
These two leaders started settlements that joined to become the Rhode Island Colony.
Who were Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
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 1676 uprising in Virginia was led by Nathaniel Bacon and highlighted tensions between frontier settlers and colonial government over Native American policies.

What was Bacon's Rebellion

500
This was the name given to the owner of a colony.
What was a proprietor?
500

New England Colonies built their economy around these industries.

shipbuilding, fishing, whaling and small-scale farmin

500

This founder of Rhode Island was banished from the Massachusetts Bay Colony for advocating religious freedom/toleration and the separation of church and state.

Who is Roger Williams

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