Chapter 6
What is the Mayflower?
New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware.
The desert in Africa that West Africans would trade goods across.
What is the Sahara?
Capital of the British colony in Virginia.
What is Williamsburg?
During 1750's and 1760's Great Britain and the colonist joined forces against the French, what was the name for this conflict?
The French and Indian War.
what is Roanoke?
Name the 5 Southern colonies
Maryland, Virginia, SC, NC, and Georgia.
What country did the slave traders come from in the 1500's?
Europe
The name for the main government building, in which lawmakers meet.
What is the capitol?
What did the colonists become angry about in Great Britain/ what did they think was happening to them that was unfair at this time?
Taxation without representation
Why was Roanoke left unattended for three years?
England was at war with Spain, and John White was not allowed to return to the colony.
Name the islands that lie between SE North America and Northern South America. It also separates the the Caribbean sea from the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the West Indies?
Name at least 2 goods Europeans would trade for slaves
What is rum, salt, cloths, tobacco, and even guns
The name of the college that sat at the end Williamsburg's main street.
What is the college of William and Mary?
The colonists who disagreed with the British rule began to do what against the British?
Protest
Name of the American Indian who helped the pilgrims plant, catch fish, etc.
Who is Squanto?
What two factors in a region affected what crops settlers could grow?
Climate and soil type
Name for the voyage of slave ships across the Atlantic Ocean, from West Africa to the West Indies and American continents.
What is the Middle Passage?
Name of of the most common crafts in Williamsburg.
What is shoemaking?
What is the term for an official public announcement?
What was the Mayflower compact?
The rules that Pilgrims drew up as a plan of government to help them get along.
What was the name for a large farm on which crops are grown by free workers/slaves who live on the land?
A plantation.
What happened to the slaves when their ship arrived in the American colonies?
They were sold to white plantation owners.
Just as their west African ancestors did, name what slaves used to express themselves.
What is song? What is music?
What do you call a person who represents others at a convention/conference.
A delegate