Colonies & Their Founders
New England Colonies
Middle Colonies
Southern Colonies
Unit 3 Randoms
100
The founder of New York
Who is the Duke of York?
100
The most important building in a Puritan village, which stood at the center of town.
What is the meetinghouse
100
A person who works with an older, experienced person to learn a skill
What is an apprentice?
100
The main cash crop of the colony of Virginia
What is tobacco?
100
Farmers in the Middle Colonies grew so much wheat that this region became known as this
What are the "Breadbasket Colonies"?
200
William Penn founded this Middle colony
What is Pennsylvania?
200
People who disagree with the views of their leaders
What are dissenters?
200
Self-sufficient farmers in Pennsylvania
What are yeomen?
200
These poor people settled in the unusual colony of Georgia
What are debtors?
200
This was the second major cash crop of South Carolina
What is indigo?
300
This Catholic English landowner created this colony for Catholics
Who is Lord Baltimore? (astaghifrullah)
300
The Native American form of money made from polished shells that were put onto strings
What is wampum?
300
The freedom of everyone to practice their religions as they want to
What is religious toleration?
300
A route many Southern travelers chose which was shared by mail carriers.
What is a post road?
300
An important subsistence farming crop in the South
What is corn?
400
Charles I founded this colony and named it after himself
What are the Carolinas?
400
The terrible trip that African slaves took across the Atlantic Ocean to America was known as this
What is the Middle Passage?
400
The fast-moving rivers of the Middle Colonies that run from the Appalachian Mountains through a region of rolling hills
What is the Piedmont?
400
Nathaniel Bacon and his followers burned this Southern town to the ground in 1676.
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
400
These people moved to the backcountry of the Middle Colonies because it was cheaper to buy
Who are the Scots-Irish?
500
Connecticut was found by this dissenter of Massachusetts
Who is Thomas Hooker?
500
The large room in New England homes
What is the "hall"?
500
The original name of present-day New York
What is New Amsterdam?
500
A language developed by African slaves primarily in the South Carolina and Georgia
What is Gullah?
500
He was the postmaster of all the American colonies
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
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