Life in the Early 1600s
The years 1609-1610 in Jamestown is often referred to as...
What is The Starving Time?
This was the first permanent British colony
What is Jamestown?
These are the pull reasons people came to America (list three).
What is economic opportunity, religious freedom, and free land?
The alliance between the English and the Iroquios was called...
What is the Covenant Chain?
This was the name of the trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What is triangular trade?
This colony was built on a swampy land with lots of moquitos
What is Jamestown?
This colony was founded by Pilgrims
What is Plymouth?
These are the groups of people that came to the Americas in the early years (list 5)
Who are indentured servants, peasants, enslaved people, Pilgrims, European settlers?
A person that served as a servent for 5-7 years in exchanged for freedom is called...
Who are indentured servants?
This document was written during the founding of Plymouth and is an example of the first self governing document in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This colony relied on help from Native Americans, (and a famous one named Squanto) for food assistance
What is Plymouth?
These are the three colonial regions
What are the southern colonies, middle colonies, and New England colonies?
This man was governor of Plymouth colony
Who is William Bradford?
The upper class of colonial life - often rich southern plantation owners are called
Who are the aristocracy?
What source of trade involved the French, British, and Native Americans in the northern colonies?
What is the Fur Trade?
This heavily impacted Native Americans when they first made contact with Europeans
What is disease?
This colonial region mainly specialized in building ships and people mainly had subsistence farms there
What is New England?
This man brought tobacco to Jamestown
Who is John Rolfe?
What was the main source of conflict between the Native Americans and the Europeans?
What is land?
Enslaved people resisted slavery through (list 4)
What are rebellions, music, language, and covert actions?
Life was hard in the colonies for these reasons (list 4):
What is conflict with Native Americans, inability to grow food, disease, harsh weather and geography?
List the 5 southern colonies
What are Georgia, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Maryland?
This group of people founded the Massachuetts Bay Colony
Who are the Puritans?
What effect did Bacon's Rebellion have on America?
What is racial division?
What cash crops did the South specialize in? (list 3)
Rice, Indigo, Tobacco