Geography & Economy
Unlike the New England and Middle Colonies which were settled for religious freedom, the Southern Colonies were settled for what reason?
Economic
The Act of Toleration guaranteed freedom of worship to all _____.
Christians
Maryland was originally founded as a safe haven for which religious group?
Catholics
Early Jamestown settlers focused on searching for gold instead of farming until Captain John _____ implemented strict work rules to ensure survival.
Smith
Name a state that was once part of The Southern colonies.
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia
(CANDY) The Tidewater region featured rich soil and long growing seasons ideal for producing cash crops like _____, rice, and indigo.
Tobacco
Southern colonial legislatures passed strict laws called _____ codes that stripped enslaved people of human rights and defined them as property.
Slave
To help the colony of Maryland grow, Lord Baltimore welcomed both Catholic and Protestant _____.
Christians
Chief Powhatan's daughter was thought to save John Smith, what was her name?
Pocahontas
Georgia was founded partly as a military buffer to protect the English colonies from Spanish-controlled _____.
Florida
Who had specialized knowledge of growing rice and was able to help teach farmers this process?
Enslaved Africans
In Virginia, representative government was established through an elected legislature known as the House of _____.
Burgesses
Although Maryland's Act of Toleration protected all Christians, it did not protect _____ people.
Jewish
Under colonial government, Native Americans and African Americans were denied basic legal protections and had virtually no _____.
Rights
The forced ocean voyage that brought millions of enslaved West Africans across the Atlantic to working plantations was called the _____ Passage.
Middle