New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Colonial Life
Slavery
100
This New England city is famous for their tea party, their clam chowder, and the Celtics.
Boston
100
"Penn's Woods" was another name for what colony?
Pennsylvania
100
What do you call a large farm in South during the colonial age?
Plantation
100
A person who owes a lot of money to someone but can't pay it back is called a what?
Debtor
100
True or False: Slavery existed in some form in all of the colonies.
True
200
Dissenter Roger Williams created his own colony after he was banished from Massachusetts. What colony did he establish?
Rhode Island
200
William Penn was a part of the religious group "Society of Friends". What was the other, more common name for this group?
Quakers
200
What colony was the first permanent British colony in North America?
Virginia
200
In many colonies, what type of person did you have to be to vote in elections?
A rich, white man
200
A person who watches and directs the workers is known as what?
Overseer
300
What was the name of the strict Christians that did not allow dancing and rigidly obeyed every law in the Bible?
Puritans
300
What was the title of a person who owned and controlled all of the land in a colony, while still living in England?
Proprietor
300
What was the name of the representatives in the Virginia Legislature?
Burgesses
300
Children who lived in the Southern Back-Country were usually taught by whom?
Their Parents
300
What was the reason that slavery was so much more popular in the Southern Colonies?
Larger farms needed many workers.
400
True or False: New England was known for its fertile soil and good farmland.
False
400
What is the name of Philadelphia's most famous citizen?
Benjamin Franklin
400
What did the Southern colonies rely on to support their economy through trade?
Agriculture / Farming / Cash Crops
400
Someone who studies with a master for many years to learn a skill, instead of going to high school or college, is called a what?
Apprentice
400
In the 1600s, what type of worker was used for the hard work on plantations (before slavery)?
Indentured Servant
500
This type of trade took African Slaves from Africa to the West Indies. It also sent Iron from Europe to Africa, and goods from America to Europe.
Triangular Trade
500
What was the main reason why William Penn decided to establish Pennsylvania?
Religious Freedom
500
Name all three of the primary cash crops in the Southern Colonies.
Tobacco, Rice, Indigo
500
Name the primary roles of Boys and Girls during colonial times.
Boys were hunters and farmers and stayed outdoors. Girls were housekeepers and cooks and stayed inside.
500
Name something that African Slaves did to resist or endure hardships during the slavery age.
Sang songs (spirituals) Worked slow as they could Practice Christianity Create a community or "large family" Create a new language (Gullah) Ran away or escaped
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