Definitions/Names
Name one explorer who found the Americas or the "New World"
* Bonus points if you can name more than one*
Christopher Columbus, Leif Ericson, Amerigo Vespucci, John Cabot
List the New England Colonies
What is the name of the lost colony?
Roanoke
What is a land bridge?
a strip of land that connects two larger land masses
Why did people want to come to the New World?
Religious Freedom
What is history?
The written record of what man has done in the time God has given him
List the Middle Colonies
New York Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey
What was the name of the first PERMANENT ENGLISH colony in the New World?
Jamestown
What is a colony?
a group of people ruled by their own native country who settle in another land
What did everyday life look like in the colonies?
Many people lived in one room cabins, men would hunt or farm and women would make clothes candles quilts and prepare food for the winter
What are circuit riders?
ministers who traveled from place to place preaching the word of God
List the Southern Colonies
Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Maryland and Georgia
What is a plantation?
large farms where cotton tobacco tea rice and indigo were grown
What is an indentured servant?
person who agreed to work for a certain number of years until his debt for transportation to the New World was paid
What is the House of Burgesses?
Name for the group of government representatives in the Virginia colony
What is a New England Primer and what was on it
main colonial textbook; contained word list prayers poems and Bible stories
Name the three types of house Native Americans lived in
Longhouses Teepees and wigwams
What does Philadelphia mean?
There were different types of schools in the colonies, tell and define one
dame school - a school held in a colonial woman's home
old field school - old building used for Southern colonial schools
What is the Puritan work ethic?
belief that all men should work, that all work is honorable and that man serves God best by working faithfully in his calling
Who are the Quakers?
sometimes called Friends they had been persecuted or even put in prison for their religious beliefs
Virginia Massachusetts Rhode Island New Hampshire New York Connecticut Maryland Delaware New Jersey Pennsylvania North Carolina South Carolina Georgia
France, England, Spain
It was a prison for people who could not pay their debts
Amerigo Vespucci