Early Colonies
This is what happened to all the early colonies.
What is they are all failures?
This is the first successful colony in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
This is how many original colonies there were.
How many is 13?
These are crops grown only for profit, and this is an example of one.
What are cash crops, and what is tobacco, cotton, rice, and indigo?
This is the evil that large plantations caused in the South.
What is slavery?
This is one of the reasons why the colonies all failed.
What are hurricanes, fighting with other colonists and native Americans, and couldn't support themselves?
This is the man who helped make Jamestown a success.
These are the 3 main divisions of colonies.
What are New England, Mid-Atlantic, and Southern?
This is what New York was first called.
What is New Amsterdam?
This is the what the slave trade was called.
What is the Middle Passage?
This is the colony Sir Walter Raleigh started.
What is Roanoke?
This is one of the stories that has been romanticized about Jamestown.
What is the story of Pocahontas?
This is why the Puritans and Pilgrims came to America.
What is religious freedom?
This was the first representative government in the New World, and it was located in this colony.
What is the House of Burgesses, and where is Virginia?
This is the largest city in the colonies, and it was also the meeting place.
What is Philadelphia?
This is why Raleigh did not return with the needed supplies for Roanoke for 3 years.
What is "The British took his ship"?
This is one of the ways Pocahontas was romanticized.
What is the fact that she was really only 11 years old, and that she was never in love with John
Smith, and that she was raped and kidnapped and poisoned before she was 21?
This is the most diverse group of colonies.
What is the Mid-Atlantic?
This caused the death of many innocent people in 1692.
What are the Salem Witch Trials?
Who is Virginia Dare?
England was at war with this country when Raleigh returned to England.
What is Spain?
This is one reason Jamestown succeeded, where all others had failed.
They figured out (with the help of Pocahontas and her marriage to John Rolfe) how to plant tobacco.
This is an example of the Mid-Atlantic colonies.
What are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Delaware?
This is the message that King James sent the colonists in 1619.
What is "You can start writing your own laws and governing yourselves"?
This is a rebirth of religion and culture.
What is the Great Awakening?