Exploration
This is the "mother country."
What is Great Britain?
This is the climate of New England.
What is cold winters and rocky soil?
This is the climate of the Southern colonies.
What is warm summers, rich soil and mild winters?
This is the climate of the middle colonies.
What is "mild"?
This social contract, written by the pilgrims, allowed the future colonists to agree on the rules in their new colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is the area settled by Spain.
What is South America, Mexico and Florida?
This is the way people in New England made money.
What is fishing, lumbering and shipbuilding?
This is the way people in the South made money.
What are cash crops and slavery?
This is how the middle colonies made money.
What is the "bread basket"?
(growing wheat, grains and other food for the other colonists)
This was the first representative government in the colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This is how the french made their money in the new world.
What is the fur trade?
This was the first colony in New England.
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
***SETTLED IN 1620***
This was the first colony in the South AND the year it was created.
What is Jamestown in 1607?
This is the name of the religious group, who believed in peace and equality for all, that settled in the middle region.
Who are the quakers?
This document, written in England, forced the king to obey laws and guaranteed a trial by jury to all British citizens.
What is the Magna Carta?
This country hoped to spread catholicism, find gold and expand their empire.
What is Spain?
What is religious freedom?
This is the name of the largest colony in the South, known for its large plantations and tobacco farms. It was the home of presidents Washington and Jefferson.
What is Virginia?
DAILY DOUBLE!!!! 2X POINTS FOR THIS QUESTION!!!
This is the names of the four colonies in the Middle region.
What is Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York and New Jersey?
This document, written by Thomas Hooker, was the first constitution in the colonies.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This is the ORIGINAL reason many explorers came to America.
Explorers were looking for trade routes to Asia.
This is the form of government that was used in most New England towns. It involved the people getting together and making decisions as a group.
What are town meetings?
This is the form of government used by the people of Virginia that allowed them to have a say in what was going on in their colony.
What is representative government?
OR what is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This port city located in the Middle Colonies allowed the colonists to trade more easily. Due to its port, it had a very diverse population. Today, it is one of the most well-known cities in the world.
What is New York City?
What is distance from the king and salutary neglect?