Exploration
These are the "Three G's" that motivated European exploration.
What are Gold, Glory, and God?
This Native American taught the Plymouth colonists how to farm and acted as a translator.
Who is Squanto?
This region had rocky soil and cold winters, so they made money through fishing and shipbuilding instead of farming.
What are the New England Colonies?
This is the biggest difference between enslaved people and indentured servants - enslaved people were denied this for their entire lives.
What is freedom?
These crops were grown to sell for profit, not to feed families.
What are cash crops?
This continent was the original destination Europeans were trying to reach when they started exploring and wanted to find spices and silk.
What is Asia?
This man who helped start the Jamestown colony and said "He who will not work shall not eat."
Who is John Smith?
This colonial region had the longest growing season and was perfect for farming cash crops.
What are the Southern Colonies?
These people signed a contract to work without pay for several years and then were legally freed.
Who are indentured servants?
Both enslaved people and indentured servants experienced this treatment - they worked without this and could be physically punished.
What is pay?
This explorer realized the Americas was a new continent, not Asia, and the continent is named after him.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
The Pilgrims came to America searching for this.
What is religious freedom?
This colonial region was known as the "breadbasket" and had a growing season that lasted about 6-7 months.
What are the Middle Colonies?
These three continents were connected by the Triangle Trade.
What are Europe, Africa, and the Americas?
This group of wealthy colonists owned large plantations, lived in the best houses, and had the most power in the Southern Colonies.
Who are large landowners?
This explorer was the first to circumnavigate the globe, though he died before completing the journey.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
William Penn founded this colony based on equality, religious freedom, and free expression of opinions.
What is Pennsylvania?
This region had the shortest growing season of the three.
What is the New England Colonies?
This was the name of the horrific journey when enslaved Africans were shipped across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What is the Middle Passage?
This musical genre is base in African Culture and can often be heard sung in churches.
What are gospel songs (or spirituals)?
This type of factor motivated Europeans to find new natural resources and trade routes to make money.
What is an economic factor?
This occurred when poor farmers felt at risk of losing their land and organized attacks against Native American tribes.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This is the term for how the colonies relied on each other by trading different goods and services based on what each region could produce.
What is interdependence?
During the first leg of the Triangle Trade, Europeans shipped these types of goods to Africa in exchange for enslaved people.
What are manufactured goods?
What are two categories in which African American Cultural contributions can be seen?
Choose 2
What is music, dance, folklore, craftsmanship or agriculture?