Early Settlements
This was the first permanent English settlement in America.
What is Jamestown?
This region had rocky soil, long winters, and relied on fishing and shipbuilding.
What is New England?
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangle Trade?
This 1620 agreement was the first written plan for self-government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This labor system grew in the South as plantations expanded.
What is slavery?
This colony was founded by Pilgrims seeking religious freedom in 1620.
What is Plymouth?
These colonies were called the “breadbasket” for producing wheat and other grains.
What are the Middle Colonies?
These laws required colonists to trade only with England.
What are the Navigation Acts?
In this New England practice, colonists met to vote on local issues.
What are town meetings?
The first enslaved Africans arrived in this colony in 1619.
What is Virginia?
This colony became known as the “Lost Colony” after its settlers mysteriously disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
These colonies relied most on enslaved labor and plantations.
What are the Southern Colonies?
New England exported this product, used for ships and construction.
What is lumber?
Colonial governors were chosen by this authority in England.
Who is the King?
This geographic feature made the South ideal for large-scale farming.
What is fertile soil and a long growing season?
This cash crop saved Jamestown’s economy.
What is tobacco?
This mountain range formed a natural barrier to the west of the colonies.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Southern plantations grew this cash crop, along with indigo and rice.
What is tobacco?
This type of government allows citizens to elect representatives to make laws.
What is representative democracy?
One effect of colonists taking Native American lands was this.
What is conflict/war with Native Americans?
This leader helped Jamestown survive with the rule, “He who works not, eats not.”
Who is John Smith?
William Penn founded this colony as a “holy experiment” for religious freedom.
What is Pennsylvania?
This economic system was designed to make the colonies benefit the mother country
What is mercantilism?
These elected colonial groups gave colonists early practice in self-rule.
What are colonial assemblies?
These laws tied colonies more tightly to Britain’s economy, causing resentment.
What are the Navigation Acts?