13 Colonies I
Labor intensive plants grown for the purpose of selling rather than being grown for farmers to use.
What are cash crops?
What is the name of the ocean between The New World (Colonies ) and Europe?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
From 1675-1676, Metacom led Native American allies against the New England colonists.
What is King Phillip's War?
This colony was established by William Penn for Quakers?
What is Pennsylvania?
Why did the pilgrims come to the New World?
What is to find religious freedom
A person put in prison for owing money.
What is a debtor?
Document granted by the government that gave individuals the right to establish and govern a colony on land owned by the king or queen?
What is a charter?
Dutch landholders were given huge tracts of land that they could rent out to tenant farmers.
What is the Patroon System?
This colony was the location of the Salem Witch Trials.
What is Massachusetts?
This colony was originally a Dutch settlement called New Netherlands.
What is New York?
Shipping routes that connected England, the English colonies, and Africa.
What is the Triangular Trade Route?
The agreement among the Pilgrims to follow the laws and the government of the colony.
The Mayflower Compact
What was England's primary reason for wanting to colonize America?
TRADE to make money - Mercantilism
It was bad spot for a settlement, right in the middle of a swamp.
What is Jamestown?
This colony was established by Lord Baltimore and Cecil Calvert?
What is Maryland?
An economic theory that stated in order to increase wealth and power, a country must have a favorable balance of power.
What is Mercantilism?
Which group of colonies would catch whales for their meat, oil and bones?
New England
Indentured servants, slaves, and poor farmers made up the majority of this militia that destroyed Jamestown before being put down by Governor Berkeley's army.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Which colonial region does North Carolina belong to?
What are the Southern Colonies ?
This colony was given to loyal supporters by King Charles II.
What is Carolina?
A person who lived and worked with an artisan's family for several years, learning a skill in order to earn a living.
What is an apprentice?
What is the name of the crop that saved Jamestown?
What is tobacco?
A product that leaves a country.
What is an export?
Which colonial region is known as the "Bread Basket" Colonies?
What is the Middle Colonies?
This colony was originally two separate colonies settled by Sir George Carteret and Lord John Berkeley?
What is New Jersey?