Three Worlds Meet
What is Beringia/ the Bering Strait?
This is the first successful English colony that was established in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
John Winthrop was the founder of this Colony and he called it a "city upon a hill", or an example to the world.
What is Massachusetts?
These people were at the top of society in the agricultural South.
What are plantation owners?
These crops are known as the "Three Sisters".
This is the first colonial legislature, or first democratic government in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Roger Williams left Massachusetts because he believed in a separation of Church and State. He went on to be the founder of this colony.
What is Rhode Island?
This was considered a "necessary evil" as a means to labor by many people.
What is slavery?
In 1492, this country paid for Columbus's voyage.
What is Spain?
This is the name for a reason that someone would leave a place (example: religious persecution, lack of resources).
What is a push factor?
What is Pennsylvania?
This was the name for the journey from Africa to the the Americas during the Atlantic Slave Trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
What is disease?
These people wanted to purify the Church of England, and to practice their religion on their own here in the colonies.
Who are the Puritans/ Pilgrims?
This colony was founded as a safe haven for Catholics, although they were eventually outnumbered due to their religious tolerance.
What is Maryland?
Most immigrants to the colonies moved to urban areas in this region.
What is the North?
This is the term for the movement of goods between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is Triangular Trade?
This Native American greeted the Pilgrims in English, which they saw as a sign from God. He also helped them to survive.
Who is Squanto?
What is Georgia?
What did most colonial education focus on?
What is religion/the Bible?