Vocabulary
Reasons for
Colonization
Religion in the Colonies
Self-Government in
the Colonies
The 13
Colonies
100
A crop that is grown in large quantities and sold for a large profit
What is a cash crop?
100
This type of person traveled to the Americas in order to convert the Native Americans.
What is a missionary?
100
This occurs when a person has been persuaded to change religious beliefs.
What is convert?
100
This document created the first form of self-government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
This region is characterized by harsh winters, logging, fishing, and rocky soil.
What is New England? (North)
200
A spiritual renewal that swept the American Colonies.
What is the First Great Awakening?
200
This group of people left Great Britain due to religious persecution.
What are the Puritans?
200
This group of people founded the colony of Pennsylvania
Who are the Society of Friends?
200
The first written constitution on the colonies
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
200
This region is known as the "Breadbasket" of the colonies
What is the Middle Colonies?
300
A large area of privately owned land where crops were grown through the labor of workers, especially enslaved people, who lived on the land.
What is a plantation?
300
This country had control over the area now known as Mexico and Florida.
What is Spain?
300
This man created the first constitution in the colonies. It was written with a strong religious influence.
Who is Thomas Hooker?
300
The first legislative, law-making, body in the colonies
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
300
A popular system in the southern colonies. Slaves work on privately owned land.
What is a plantation system?
400
A type of system in which the government is controlled by its own citizens
What is self-government?
400
This resource enticed many men to take the Trans-Atlantic voyage. Unfortunately, it was not an abundant resource.
What is gold?
400
This colony was founded by Anne Hutchinson.
What is Rhode Island?
400
Three examples of self-government in the colonies?
What is the Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, and the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
400
What are the five colonies of the south?
What is Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia?
500
A new settlement or territory established and government by a country in another land.
What is a colony?
500
This man created a colony for the Society of Friends.
Who is William Penn?
500
The two most prominent preachers of the First Great Awakening
What is George Whitefield and Jonathan Edwards?
500
This country did not establish strict expectations/rules for the colonists to govern themselves. They were generally left alone.
What is Great Britain?
500
The colonies that make up New England
What is Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Delaware, and New Hampshire?
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