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

The first permanent English settlement in North America.

What is Jamestown?

200

These were laws passed in the southern colonies to control the slaves. 

What is are slave codes?

200

This was a Separatist group that left England and settled in Plymouth.

Who are the Pilgrims

200

These staple 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

This system gave 50 acres of land to each colonist that paid their own way to Virginia and 50 acres for every additional person they brought. 

What is the headright system?

300

Why was education so important in the New England colonies? 

So people could read the Bible

300
Benjamin Franklin lived in this city and worked to improve it.
What is Philadelphia?
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 Pocahontas?

400

Crops that are always needed

What are staple crops?

400

Name one of the two leaders who 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 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?

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

These were important things that made up New England colonies economy.

What is shipbuilding, lumber, fishing

500
This word means to accept religious differences.
What is tolerance?
500
These were cash crops exported from the Southern Colonies. (Name two)
What are tobacco, indigo, and rice?
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