Government
First representative lawmaking body in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Sailed the ocean blue in the year 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
A crop that makes someone a lot of money.
What is a cash crop?
The coast of North America were the 13 colonies were located.
What is the east coast?
The majority of people in the 13 colonies.
Who are the English?
Law in Plymouth that established self government and majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact of 1620?
His real name was Metacomet.
Who is King Phillip?
Process of lifelong forced labor which was passed on to future generations.
What is slavery?
The coast of Africa where many nations participated in a slave trade.
What is the west coast?
The largest killer of American Indians.
What is small pox?
Law in 1215 England that stated King is not above the law.
What is the Magna Carta?
Translated for the Wampanoag & Pilgrims.
Who is Squanto?
Primary cash crop of the colonies.
What is tobacco?
Ocean needed to be crossed in order to arrive in the Americas from Europe or Africa?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Landmark that is claimed to be the landing place of the Pilgrims in Plymouth.
What is Plymouth Rock?
Parliament overthrew the King and established a representative government in England.
What are the English Bill of Rights?
He was an early example of an African-American slave owner in the colony of Virginia.
Who is Anthony Johnson?
Region known as the breadbasket colonies.
What are the Middle Colonies?
What is the land bridge?
Profitable system that existed for centuries between West Africa and the Middle East.
What is Trans-Saharan slave trade?
Law that attempted to unite the 13 colonies under one government.
What is the Albany Plan of Union?
Indian nation of five tribes who ended decades of fighting by uniting and creating a democratic government.
Who are the Iroquois?
Worked for seven years in order to afford passage to the new world.
What is an indentured servant?
Geographical feature that prevented the colonists from further westward expansion.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Unofficial policy of Britain letting the colonists run themselves.
What is Salutary Neglect?