Vocabulary
This is a place ruled by another country.
What is a colony?
The first permanent English settlement (1607).
Owning a person as property with no freedom.
What is slavery?
This European country ruled the 13 Colonies.
What is England (Britain)?
A person who lives in a colony.
Who is a colonist?
The colony that mysteriously disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
The system that forced Africans across the Atlantic.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This group wanted religious freedom and came on the Mayflower.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Forcing people to work without pay or freedom.
What is slavery?
The terrible winter in Jamestown when many starved.
What was “The Starving Time”?
About how many Africans were taken during the slave trade?
About 10 million.
Strict Christians who settled in New England.
Who were the Puritans?
People dying from hunger
This crop made Jamestown rich after no gold was found.
What is tobacco?
Where most enslaved people worked in the colonies.
Southern plantations.
This group believed men and women were equal and opposed slavery.
Who were the Quakers?
A group of people being treated bad by another group based on race, skin, and religion.
What is persecution
The Native American tribe that traded food with Jamestown settlers.
Who were the Powhatan?
One danger enslaved Africans faced during the journey.
Death, disease, starvation, or being sold away from family.
The first representative government in the colonies (1619).
What is the House of Burgesses?