SOUTHERN COLONIES
The name of a large farm owned by wealthy landowners, usually worked by slaves and indentured servants.
What are plantations?
The nickname of the middle colonies.
What is Breadbasket?
This group left England on a ship called the Mayflower, and created a colony called Plymouth.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The total number of original colonies in North America.
What is 13?
The name for the Spanish, French, and British who colonized the Americas.
What are colonists?
John Smith was in charge of this colony in the Southern Colonies.
What is Jamestown?
The colony (and now state) Pennsylvania is named after this person.
Who is William Penn?
A various dangerous job in the New England colonies that is now illegal.
What is whaling?
This colony disappeared, and historians still do not know what happened. It is also known as the "lost colony".
What is Roanoke?
The name of crops used to sell or trade for profit.
What are Cash Crops?
This person is known for saving the colonist, John Smith, from the leader of the Powhatan Tribe.
Who is Pocahontas?
This group left England because the Church of England treated them poorly. This group believed in peace, equality, and was against slavery.
Who are the Quakers?
This person was kicked out of the Massachusetts Bay colony for speaking up about Women's Rights in the church.
Who is Anne Hutchison?
The __________ is the effort by Europeans to transfer food, livestock, ideas, people, and more between ONLY the American Colonies and Europe.
What is The Columbian Exchange?
The name of the trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What are Indentured Servants?
People who start their own businesses in trade and industry. There were many of these people in the Middle Colonies.
Who are entrepreneurs?
This area had rocky soil, thick forests, and a jagged coastline perfect for natural harbors.
What are the New England Colonies?
One negative outcome of the Columbian Exchange that killed many Native Americans.
What are diseases?
This is the word for when a stronger country takes political control over another country or territory.
What is Colonization?
This plant was grown in the Southern Colonies and is used for purple dye.
What are indigo plants?
The middle colonies are considered the most advanced colonies because they established the first _______ in the Americas.
What are college (or universities)?
The first signed document for America's organized self-government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This clue was found carved into a tree at the lost colony of Roanoke.
What is CROATOAN?
Many groups left England due to the Church of England's restrictive rules. They left for ______.
What is Religious Freedom?