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1. A laborer who agrees to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.
2. In what colony was there a large population of such people?
1. What is an indentured servant.
2. What is Georgia.
1. This woman managed her father's three plantations in South Carolina and experimented with many crops.
2. This crop was used to make blue dye.
2. What is indigo.
Sir George Calvert, also known as Lord Baltimore, created this colony as a safe haven for this religious group.
Who are Catholics.
New York was taken by force from the ________.
Reasons for founding this colony were for (choose one): economic opportunity, religious freedom, make a fresh start.
Who are the Dutch.
What is economic opportunity.
The Dutch bought this island from the Native Americans for this amount of money.
What is Manhattan.
What is $26.00!!!!!
1. A landowner in the Dutch colonies who ruled like a king over large areas of land.
2. Give an example of a Dutch colony that was eventually take over by the British.
1. What is a patroon.
2. What is New Netherland.
1. These men explored a waterway looking for a passage to the Pacific Ocean, but abandoned their exploration when they learned the waterway flowed from north to south, not east to west.
2. Name the water way they explored.
1. Who are Joliet and Marquette.
2. What is the Mississippi River.
1. This act was passed in 1649.
2. It granted two groups the right to worship freely.
1. What is the Act of Toleration.
2. Who are Catholics and Protestants.
This colony was formed when the Duke of York gave a chunk of land to Lords Berkeley and Carteret.
Reasons for founding this colony were for (choose one): Economic opportunity, religious freedom, make a fresh start.
What is New Jersey.
What is economic opportunity.
This group of people enjoyed profitable trade relations with the Native Americans by respecting their culture and learning their language.
Who are the French.
1. A religious group devoted to peaceful principles.
2. In what colony did this group predominantly settle?
1. What is Quaker.
2. What is Pennsylvania.
1. This young planter from Virginia opposed the colonial government's ruling that settlers needed to stay confined to the coast.
2. Name the attack he staged.
1. Who is Nathaniel Bacon.
2. What is Bacon's Rebellion.
The ___________ established ___________ or religious settlements were established along the west coast in order to convert the _____________ to the Christian faith.
Who are the Spanish.
What are missions.
Who are Native Americans.
This colony eventually split into two colonies.
Reasons for founding this colony were for (choose one): Economic opportunity, religious freedom, make a fresh start.
What is Carolina colony: North and south.
What is economic opportunity.
These three types of government were found in the 13 colonies.
What are representative, proprietary, and royal.
1. A person who opposes the use of war or violence to settle disputes.
2. The founder of Pennsylvania adhered to this ideal.
1. What is a pacifist.
2. Who is William Penn.
1. This man founded Georgia Colony to give settlers a fresh start in life.
2. Georgia was known as what type of colony?
1. Who is James Oglethorpe.
2. What is a debtor's colony.
Father Serra set up a route of missions along the California coast known as the ____________.
These missions are known today as ___________.
What are Los Angeles, San Diego, Monterrey.
Cecilius Calvert of _______ colony attempted to carry on his father's reasons for founding the colony, _______, but expanded the vision to include _______.
What is Maryland colony.
What is religious freedom and economic opportunity.
These crops served as major cash crops on southern plantations and required the work of this group.
What are tobacco, rice, and indigo.
Who are enslaved Africans.
1. A colony run by a group of individuals or groups to whom land was granted by the King of England.
2. Give an example of this type of colony.
1. What is proprietary colony.
2. What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and the Carolinas.
1. These men created a boundary line between Pennsylvania and Maryland that spanned 233 miles, designed to end disputes between colonists. Name the line.
2. How did the line become significant in American history?
1. What is the Mason-Dixon line.
2. The line became the northern most limit of slavery in the United States.
The _________, also known as the Society of Friends, believed that everyone was equal and that they could follow their own inner light to salvation. They settled in Pennsylvania colony as part of William Penn's _________ _________.
Who are Quakers.
What is Holy Experiment.
This colony, intended to be a colony for debtors instead attracted these groups of settlers.
Georgia also served as a _______ between Spanish Florida and the remaining British colonies.
1. Who are the poor, religious refugees from central Europe, and Jews.
2. What is a buffer.
New France was settled along this river.
What is the St. Lawrence River.