Crops that are in large demand and provide most of the region's income.
What is a staple or cash crop?
100
The name of the very first legislative body formed in America.
What is House of Burgesses?
100
The name of the very first successful and permanent English colony in America?
What is Jamestown?
100
The region that makes their money mainly from fishing, shipbuilding, rum, and logging.
What is the New England Colonies?
100
Name the person who was the founder of the Quaker colony of Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
200
The name given to the rich upper class landowners of the south.
What is gentry?
200
The idea that the government and its officials must obey the rules.
What is Rule of Law?
200
In the south, plantations were located along _______ so they could trade better with England.
What is rivers?
200
The region that was home to the most diverse groups of people and had the largest cities.
What is the Middle Colonies?
200
The most influential English philosopher. He influenced many ideas for our future form of government once we declared independence from England.
Who is John Locke?
300
The name given to the people who would work as a slave for 7 years in exchange for their passage to America.
What is indentured servant?
300
John Locke believed that all people were born with _________________, that the government must respect.
What is natural rights?
300
America's first cash crop.
What is tobacco?
300
The group of colonies that was founded for religious purposes?
What is the New England colonies?
300
He helped save the colony of Jamestown by introducing the cash crop of tobacco.
Who is John Rolfe?
400
The name given to the religious group that started in the colony of Pennsylvania.
What is Quakers?
400
Name the 3 most important rights according to John Locke.
What are life, liberty, and property?
400
The name of the religious group that established a colony at Plymouth Rock, Massachusetts.
What are the Puritans?
400
The region that was home to the Plantation Style of living.
What is the Southern Colonies?
400
The name (or title) of the one person who was technically in charge of colonial America.
Who is the King of England?
500
A term used to describe how the British government left the American colonies alone due to the distance between them and allowed the colonies to basically govern themselves.
What is salutary neglect?
500
The New England colonies were the first to have ___________ so there colonists would be able to read the bible.
What is public education?
500
The region that had the best relationship with the Native Americans.
What is the Middle Colonies?
500
The name of the Native American who helped the Plymouth Rock colony in Massachusetts.