Colony Farming
Government & Economic Terms
Colonial America
Colonial People & Groups
Colonial Key Terms
100

Producing or bearing many crops in great quantities.

What is fertile?

100

A government agreement.

What is a compact?

100

The ____________ is the Middle Colonies because they were known for their basic foods, bread.

What is the “breadbasket colony”?

100

People who owe money.

Who is a debtor?

100

When people work together and make big changes.

What is a revolution?

200

The practice of farming.

What is agriculture?

200

Accepting people who are different from you

What is tolerance?

200

A trade between North America, Europe, and Africa that travels in the shape of a triangle.

What is the triangular trade?

200

A person who wanted to live a very simple life.

Who is a Puritan?

200

A group of people who come together and help protect their town or country.

Who were militia?

300

Everyday food crops that were planted in the Middle Colonies — mainly wheat, barley, and oats — that were grown in large amounts because people used them to make basic foods like bread.

What are staple crops?

300

Anything to do with money, jobs, selling and buying. (Chaching,Chacing).

What is an economic?

300

The journey enslaved Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas, known for its brutal conditions.

What is the Middle Passage?

300

Small religious group in England who believed the Church of England was too much like the Catholic Church / a person who travels for a special reason.

Who is a Pilgrim?

300

When a person shares information or pictures to try to make other people think a certain way.

What is a propaganda?

400

A big farm that grows lots of one crop and needs many workers.

What is a plantation system?

400

A harsh punishment for someone’s beliefs.

What is persecution?

400

The Separatists sailed to America in 1620 on the Mayflower and started the ____________.

What was the Plymouth Colony?

400

An area under the full or partial control of another country

What is a colony?

400

Special paper/document that gives someone permission to do something.

What is a charter?

500

Southern Colonies made MOST of their money from farming crops like cotton, tobacco, rice, & indigo.

What are cash crops?

500

A _____________ created a plan for fair laws and working together in the new colony.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

500

In Virginia, _________ was the first English colony made up of scattered farms instead of towns.

What is Jamestown Colony?

500

People who worked for someone for a few years to pay off a big debt or get something important.

Who were indentured servants?

500

A water route that goes through North America.

What is the Northwest Passage?

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