Name that Colony
This colony was part of the Southern region and was the location of the first permanent English settlement.
What is Virginia
City in Maryland named after Cecilius Calvert in 1634.
What is St. Mary's?
This individual played an important role in helping to strengthen the relations between settlers and Native Americans by marrying Pocahontas.
Who is John Rolfe?
Also known as "Blue Gold", this item was a common cash crop in south.
What is indigo?
Undeveloped land outside of settled areas.
What is the frontier?
In the year 1620, the Pilgrims landed and had the first Thanksgiving in this colony
What is Massachusetts? (Plymouth)
This city was located south of the Southern Colonies and was owned by Spain.
What is St. Augustine?
This pastor from Massachusetts went on to found the colony of Connecticut.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
The 2nd largest group of immigrants to travel to the new Colonies. Many of them settling the Appalachian backcountry.
The large wave of immigration to the Massachusetts Bay Colony. Nearly 10,000 new settlers arrived in the New England region of colonies, primarily in Massachusetts.
What is the Great Migration?
Originally settled by Swedes in 1638, this colony was appointed to William Penn in 1682 before ultimately becoming its own colony.
What is Delaware
The Pilgrims that landed in Plymouth in 1620, departed from this English town.
What is Plymouth?
This English explorer worked for both England and the Netherlands. He discovered what is now New York, and has a river named after him.
Who is Henry Hudson?
The name commonly given to African slave's journey to the New World by ship.
What is the Middle Passage?
Colonists paid these to finance their governments. Anyone who owned land or valuable property paid a certain amount.
What are Taxes?
The capital of this colony was settled in 1733 by James Oglethorpe. The city still stands today.
What is Savannah, Georgia?
This one day famous "spooky" town in Massachusetts was the destination for nearly 500 new settlers led by John Winthrop.
What is Salem?
King Charles II owed a large sum of money to this wealthy Englishman's family. The king repaid the debt by giving a large piece of land to this future governor.
Who is William Penn?
The largest food group in the colonies.
What is corn?
This rebellion was a complex southern conflict that occurred when the governor of Virginia tried to keep the peace with a local Indian tribe. A group of settlers believed the governor was not doing enough, and attacked groups of Indians in Virginia.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
Named after Henrietta Maria, this colonies' original design was to create a home for Catholics in the New World.
What is Maryland?
This tract of land, located in Rhode Island, was purchased by Roger Williams from the Narragansett Indians.
What is Providence?
The alias given to Edward Teach. He is famous for his life at sea and blockading Charles town for a week.
Who is Blackbeard?
This happening made some colonists very wealthy, especially merchants who owned ships. During this period America's economy began to play a much larger role across the Atlantic because of this occurrence.
What is The Triangular Trade?
This conflict between colonists in New England and Native American tribes led to over 3000 Indian deaths. So many died, that tribes were forced to leave their land due to the inability to maintain their land.