Daily Life
These people made decisions in the 13 colonies.
Who are rich, white, landowning men.
New York was named after this person.
Who was the Duke of York?
There were this many original colonies.
What is 13?
The colonists came from this country.
What is England?
The Mayflower was an English ship that landed in this colony.
What is Massachusetts?
Most poor farmers, indentured servants, enslaved people, and women were not taught these essential life skills.
What are reading and writing?
This person sent the first English explorers who arrived in what is now the United States.
Who was Queen Elizabeth I?
The colonies were divided into these three groups.
What are the Southern, Middle, and New England colonies?
The colonies are on the coast of this ocean.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
This colony was founded as a safe haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
In the Southern colonies, large plantations needed lots of people to do difficult farm work for free in order for landowners to make a profit. These people were either _________ __________ or ____________.
What are indentured servants or enslaved?
This leader offered religious freedom and more freedom for women in the Pennsylvania Colony. He is also the face of Quaker Oats.
Who is William Penn?
The Roanoke settlement is referred to as this.
What is "The Lost Colony"?
The Jamestown colony was on a _________, which is a grassy wetland saturated with water.
What is a marsh?
This colony was created as a buffer between the Spanish colony of Florida and the Southern colonies.
What is Georgia?
Most indentured servants did not live long enough to collect their dues because they died of _____________ or ____________ _____________.
What are the diseases malaria and yellow fever?
This person was the leader of the Plymouth colony.
Who was William Bradford?
1609 - 1610 is known as the "starving time" because there is evidence that colonists in this area had to resort to cannibalism.
What is the Jamestown colony?
The first winter at Plymouth Rock was so terrible that the colonists had to live ________.
What is the Mayflower ship?
In these colonies, boys AND girls were taught to read and write.
What are the Middle colonies?
During the Salem Witch Trials, this person was the first person executed for being a witch.
Who was Bridget Bishop?
This colonial leader claimed that, "He that will not work, shall not eat."
Who is John Smith.
The names Brooklyn, Broadway, and Coney Island come from _________ colonists.
Who are the Dutch?