First English Settlements
The Middle Colonies
The Southern Colonies
Spanish Colonies
Spanish Borderlands
100
A spanish civilian town.
What is a pueblo?
100
A large farm where crops such as sugar, rice and cotton are grown.
What is a plantation?
100
A document issued by a government that grants specific rights to a person or company.
What is a charter?
100
Frontier leader in colonial America.
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?
100
Native American who helped the Pilgrims survive.
Who is Squanto?
200
The earliest example of representative democracy in what is now the United States.
What is Virginia's House of Burgesses?
200
James Oglethorpe wanted a colonly that protected this group.
Who are the debtors?
200
The English colonies of New York and New Jersey were originally this type of colony.
What are proprietary colonies?
200
Warm and humid best describes the climate of these colonies.
What is the southern colonies?
200
They were known as the Pilgrims who came to North America in 1620.
Who are the Separitists?
300
This colony began as a Dutch settlement.
What is New York?
300
Another name for the border between Maryland and Pennysylvania that was established in the 1760's.
What is the Mason-Dixon line?
300
The three major Spanish settlements in the Florida colony were centered around these.
What are forts?
300
These were established to convert the Native Americans to Christianity.
What were Spanish missions?
300
John Winthrop led a group of people to North America in 1630.
Who are the Puritans?
400
The first European settlement in the present-day United States.
What is St. Augustine?
400
This leader turned against the Jamestown settlers because the settlers raided Native American villages for food.
Who is Powhatan?
400
The English established a colony on this Island to provide new markets for English products and raw materials for English industries.
What is Roanoke Island
400
This document was signed by 41 adult men and established rules for their new home in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
Recognition that other people have the right to different opinions.
What is tolerance?
500
The Scoth-Irish and germans, or Pensylvania Dutch settled in this area.
What is the backcountry?
500
A colony, for example, New Jersey, that is ruled directly by the English King.
What is a royal colony?
500
These meeting sset local taxes and elected people to run the towns.
What are town meetings?
500
The Tidewater region farmed land this way.
What are plantations?
500
This area was known for growing crops on isolated farms.
What is the Virginia backcountry?
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