Vocab
A person who takes a religious journey
Pilgrim
TRUE OR FALSE: Before growing rice at South Carolina's plantations, the swamps had to be drained and the fields cleared
TRUE
A royal colony was under control by a _______
Monarch
Who did the manual labor on South Carolina's very first plantations?
Enslaved people
Large estate farmed by many workers
Plantation
What type of environment did the middle colonies have?
Warm, long growing season, fertile soil for farming
Who worked hard to convert others to christianity and establish religious settlements?
Missionaries
What was the main purpose of the Spanish borderlands?
To protect Mexico from European powers
Official document that gives certain rights to an individual or group
Charter
When John Smith got to Jamestown, what did he teach colonists?
He taught them how to farm and he assigned them tasks to help the colony as a whole
Who burned Jamestown out of spite of the new governor?
Nathaniel Bacon
What is the line creating a divide between Maryland and Pennsylvania?
Mason-Dixon Line
Person who cannot pay his or her debts
Debtor
Why did the puritans leave England?
They no longer wanted to be persecuted for opposing the Church of England
A Native American who helped the pilgrims in Massachusetts by giving them seeds, showing them how to plant and where to fish
Squanto
What is the city of Brotherly Love?
Philadelphia, Pennyslvania
Recognition that other people have the right to different opinions
Toleration
What was New York previously called before it was taken over by the English?
New Netherlands
* Who was William Penn?
- Quaker Leader
- A wealthy man
- He personally knew King Charles II
* What was William Penn's holy experiment?
He wanted to find a place for Quaker's to live that was safe from persecution~ Philadelphia, The City of Brotherly Love