Southern Colonies
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Native Americans
Fun Facts
100

Name 2 diseases that spread in the Southern colonies

Malaria and yellow fever

100

Name 2 things New Englanders traded for wheat and tools.

Lumber, fish, maple syrup, or livestock

100

The Middle colonies are sometimes called the ___________ of British North America

Breadbasket

100

What is the word for the leader of the Powhatan tribe?

The Powhatan

100

James Smith was the governor of which colony?

Jamestown

200

Who appointed the colonial governors?

The English Monarchy

200

What was the document that established Plymouth Colony's form of government

The Mayflower Compact

200

How were proprietary governments different from royal governments

leaders were selected by the members of the colony, not by the king

200

Which crops were farmed by Native Americans in New England

Squash, corn, beans, wild rice

200

What notable thing happened to the Roanoak colony

All 200 colonists disappeared, with no trace left

300

What religious group did most Southern colonists belong to?

Protestant

300

Name two significant religious groups in New England

Puritans and Pilgrims

300

Which religious group traveled to the colonies on the ship named Welcome?

The Quakers

300

What is the name of an Indigenous group who lived in the Middle colonies

The Lenape, Secarogue and the Susquehannock

300

What did Squanto teach the Pilgrims

how to plant crops and how to trade with Indigenous groups

400

What is the name of an Indigenous group who lived in Virginia? 

The Powhatan or the Algonquians
400

What group did the Native Americans of New England belong to

The Algonquian People

400

Quakers are famous for their opposition to _________ in any form

violence 

400

_________ means a child's lineage is traced through the mother and belongs to the mother's clan

matrilineal 

400

Who founded the colony of Pennsylvania

William Penn

500

Name 2 states that are part of the Southern Colonies?

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia

500

Name 2 states that were once New England colonies

New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Maine

500

Name 2 states that were once part of the Middle colonies

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Delware

500

What would cause the Lenape people to move to a new location

they had exhausted the land/natural resources in their current location

500

What areas of the world did Henry Hudson explore?

Canada and the Northeastern United States

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