Geography/Regions
This region of colonies included Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire and was known for its cold climate and forests.
What is the New England Colonies?
This was a common New England industry where trees were turned into ships, barrels, and timber goods.
What is shipbuilding (or lumber)?
Colonists used this common building type for worship and town meetings in New England (the single-word term).
What is the meetinghouse?
He led the Jamestown colony and helped organize settlers.
Who is John Smith?
This 1619 Virginia assembly was the first representative assembly in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This region had large farms called plantations and a warm climate; examples include Virginia and South Carolina
What is the Southern Colonies?
These large Southern farming estates grew cash crops like tobacco and rice.
What are plantations?
Colonial children often learned reading, writing, and religion at home or at this small local school.
What is dame school?
He wrote a book about his life as a slave.
Who was Olaudah Equiano?
The people of Virginia elected men to represent them in government. It was the first _____________ in America.
What is a representative government?
Name the colonies that were known for fertile soil and became a breadbasket producing grains.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Colonists who worked for several years in exchange for passage to America were called these.
What are indentured servants?
Many colonial families kept these animals for milk, meat, and wool; they were important to farm life.
What are sheep?
This person started Rhode Island after disagreeing with Puritan leaders and supporting religious freedom (first and last name).
Who is Roger Williams?
This type of government in which the king of England had direct control.
What is a royal colony?
This center of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It was an early port.
Boston
This system involved trading goods, people, and ships between Europe, West Africa, and the American colonies.
What is the triangular trade?
This term names the strict religious movement that influenced New England life and government (two words).
What is the Great Awakening?
One of the leaders of the Great Awakening, he was a minister in Massachusetts. He spent two years helping his grandfather who was a pastor at a congregational church.
Who was Jonathan Edwards?
These people would settle problems, hold trials, and collect taxes.
Who are justices of the peace?
This major river in the middle colonies helped trade and settlement. The Swedes settled along this river.
What is the Delaware River?
A cash crop particularly important in Jamestown that helped the colony become profitable.
What is tobacco?
Tradesmen, farmer, shipbuilders, shopkeepers belonged to this social class.
What is the middle class?
He was a writer who settled in Philadelphia and started his own newspaper.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Colonists protested taxes imposed by the British because they had ___________________.
What is "no taxation without representation"?