Geography
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Like the Pilgrims, this religious group came to New England to practice their religious beliefs and start farms and businesses.
Who are the Puritans?
Born in 1591, this mother of 15, was expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for sedition.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
The mild climate of this region allowed cash crops, such as tobacco, to grow.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This city located on the Patapsco River, close to the Chesapeake Bay became a major center for shipbuilding.
What is Baltimore?
This river valley allowed New England farmers rich soil and plenty of fresh water to grow crops.
What is the Connecticut River?
This religious group refused to fight wars or swear loyalty to any king.
This leader of the Wampanoag united the Native Americans in a war against the colonists over land.
Who is Metacomet or King Philip?
Due to their large size, these required many workers, who were often enslaved.
What are plantations?
With its coastal towns and cold waters, the New England economy depended on these two industries for food and oil.
What are fishing and whaling?
This city was built along the Hudson and East Rivers, which offered deep harbors and easy access to the ocean.
What is New York City?
This Southern colony was founded to be a refuge for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
King Charles II gave his brother the Duke of this the land between Maine and the Delaware River.
Who is the Duke of York?
These two regions used their forests to make naval stores, such as turpentine and tar.
What are New England and Southern Colonies?
With access to the Delaware River and Atlantic Ocean, this city became an important port city where many came to trade.
What is Philadelphia?
The triangular trade routes connected these three areas.
What are England, English colonies, and Africa?
In 1730, the first Jewish synagogue was built in this city.
What is New York City?
This Quaker wrote the Frame of Government of Pennsylvania, which gave citizens the freedom of religion, speech, and the right to a fair trial by jury.
Who is William Penn?
What are the Middle Colonies?
This man helped helped set up Philadelphia's first trained fire department.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
In the mid-1700's, settlers were moving west of the Coastal plain using this road.
What is the Great Wagon Road?
What is Boston?
This former slave wrote, "When I looked around the ship and saw black people of every description chained together, I no longer doubted my own fate."
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
What is indigo?
In 1738, this became the first settlement in North America for free Africans.
What is Fort Mose?