Early Settlements
The FIRST English settlement in North America
What is Roanoke?
This settlement did not have a starving time.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
This colonial region had large plantations growing tobacco and cotton and relied heavily on slave labor.
What is the Southern Colonies?
This colonial region was founded mostly by Puritans with little religious freedom.
What is the New England Colonies?
Early settlers in the English colonies eventually make most of their money by doing this?
What is growing and trading tobacco? (or cash crops)
The first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Settlers from this colony wanted to “separate” from the Church of England, and were sometimes called separatist.
What is Plymouth Plantation?
This colonial region had the most diverse population.
What is the Middle Colonies?
This colonial region has the most fertile soil.
What is the Southern Colonies?
Most European settlers that came to the British colonies came from this country
What is England?
Settlers from this early English settlement were known as Puritans
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
These settlers were possibly blown off course by a storm
What is the Plymouth Plantation or the Pilgrims?
This colonial region was settled by large groups of Scots-Irish and relied on hunting and trapping.
What is the Backcountry?
This colonial region was the most tolerate of other beliefs and religions?
What is the Middle Colonies?
The trade routes back and forth between the New World, Europe, and Africa.
What is triangle trade?
Settlers from this settlement had help from a Native American named Squanto.
What is Plymouth Plantation?
This document established self-government and majority rule
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This colonial region had long, cold winters, poorer soil.
What is the New England Colonies?
This colonial region relied on trading with the Native Americans and often lived in log homes.
What is the Backcountry?
The middle leg of the triangle trade route that transported slaves from Africa to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
This settlement had a report of cannibalism.
What is Jamestown?
What is all of them?
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts
What are the New England Colonies?
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware
What are the Middle Colonies?
Approximate number of slaves that were taken to the British colonies.
What is .5 million?