I like the Southern Colonies
What was one hardship that befell Jamestown?
Attacks, disease, starvation
Name two cash crops that were grown in the southern colonies.
Tobacco, Indigo (blue dye), cotton or sugar cane
Laws to control the slaves such as slaves not being alllowed to hold meetings or own weapons
slave codes
What was one reason that the colony of Georgia was created?
buffer colony between South Carolina and Spanish Florida and a utopian colony for English debtors
What is the name of the book about a friendship between a spider and a pig named Wilbur?
Charlotte's Web
What was the name of the "Lost Colony?"
Roanoke
He helped make Jamestown profitable and married Pocahontas.
John Rolfe
Who did most of the farming and housework?
What year was the first Superbowl held?
1967
Name 3 states that are part of the Southern colonies.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia.
What is a crop sold for money or other goods?
Cash-crop
What was the first permanent English settlement?
Jamestown
Which religious group colonized Maryland?
Catholics
Who invented the light bulb in 1879?
Thomas Edison
What were large farms that used slave labor called?
Plantations
A system that rewarded land for paying passage to Virginia
Headright System
How long was a slave required to work in the colonies?
Their entire lives.
Someone who agrees to work for a certain amount of time in exchange for passage is called what?
An indentured servant.
What type of word is "truthfully?"
Adverb
Who led a rebellion of indentured servants that would burn down Jamestown?
Nathaniel Bacon
The colonizing of Virginia was funded by who?
The Virginia Company.
Who said, "If you don't work, you don't eat."
Jamestown founder/John Smith
This was the first law supporting religious tolerance passed in the English colonies.
Toleration Act of 1649 do?
What was the first city to be attacked with an atomic bomb in WWII?
Hiroshima