New England Colonies
Name the New England colonies.
What are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut?
Name the Southern Colonies.
Define indentured servant.
What is a person who sells their labor for a certain period of time in exchange for food, clothing, and housing?
What are the three colonial regions?
What are New England, Middle, Southern?
The dominant religion in the New England colonies.
Who were the Puritans?
William Penn did not want people of different religions or backgrounds living in his colony. True or False?
What is false?
Explain what the colonists at Jamestown were looking for.
What is gold?
"Town meetings" in New England established this.
What is self-government and democracy?
Reasons for settlement in the Southern colonies.
When the Pilgrims landed in Plymouth in 1620, they created the Mayflower Compact. Name two rules of the Compact.
What were loyalty to the King, fair rules and laws, work for the good of the colony, remain Christian, etc.?
People who were educated in the New England colonies and why.
Primary reason for settlement in New England.
What is religious freedom?
The Wampanoag people lived where the Pilgrims decided to settle. Explain what Squanto taught the Pilgrims to do.
Name the Middle Colonies.
What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware?
Many New England colonists lived in towns. Was this true for colonists in the South? Explain.
What is many colonists were more "spread out" because of plantations?
Define slavery.
What is where the monarchy (king or queen) is in charge of the government of the colony?
Describe the relationship between the colonists and the Wampanoag people.
What is good at first, but promises were broken and more and more colonists began taking native land, leading to conflict.
What is when the monarchy gives a colony to an individual or business for that person or business to run?
Explain how most Southern colonies made money.
What are cash crops such as tobacco, cotton, indigo, rice, and sugarcane.
Define "slave codes" and give two examples.
Explain why the horrific practice of slavery lasted for hundreds of years.