New England Colonies
This group sailed on the Mayflower and helped write the Mayflower Compact when they arrived in 1620.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Name one colony that was part of the Middle Colonies
What was New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, or Delaware?
Jamestown (1607) is in which Southern colony?
What was/is Virginia?
True or False: In many New England towns, boys were taught to read so they could read the Bible.
What is true?
He led Jamestown and said, “He that will not work, shall not eat.”
Who was John Smith?
Name two kinds of jobs or industries commonly found in New England because of the region’s geography.
What were lumber, shipbuilding, fishing, and whaling
This colony was founded by William Penn as a refuge for Quakers.
What was Pennsylvania?
Name two cash crops commonly grown on Southern plantations.
What was tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar cane, cotton
What was one harsh winter period at Jamestown known as when many colonists died?
What was The Starving Time?
This leader founded Rhode Island and promoted religious freedom after leaving Massachusetts Bay.
Who was Roger Williams?
This Puritan leader delivered the sermon calling the colony a “city upon a hill.” Who is he?
Who was John Winthrop?
The Middle Colonies were sometimes called the “breadbasket.” Name one crop that supports this nickname.
What was wheat?
This was the first representative government in the British colonies, created in Virginia in 1619
What was the House of Burgesses?
Name one way enslaved people resisted their treatment (everyday or organized).
What was slowing work, breaking tools, running away, learning secretly to read, religious worship and cultural retention, small rebellions?
He was the founder of Pennsylvania and wanted it to be a place of religious freedom for Quakers.
Who was William Penn?
This Native American taught the Pilgrims how to plant corn and trade with other Indigenous groups.
Who was Squanto?
Which Indigenous group lived in much of the Middle Colonies region and practiced a clan system?
Who were the Lenape?
Explain one major difference between indentured servants and enslaved people in the Southern colonies.
What was indentured servants served for a set time and could become free; enslaved people were forced for life and had no legal freedom?
Describe one way gender roles or rights differed for women in the New England, Middle, or Southern colonies (pick one region).
What was...New England: Women had fewer public rights, expected domestic roles and limited leadership; Middle: women often had more rights than in South; South: women's roles tied to plantation life and class?
This leader kept detailed records of Plymouth Colony and served as its governor for many years.
Who was William Bradford?
Explain one reason the Pilgrims originally left England
What was left England for religious reasons (seek religious freedom/separate from Church of England)?
Describe two reasons the Middle Colonies became more religiously and culturally diverse than New England.
What was/were settlers from many countries (Dutch, English, German, Swedish), policies like William Penn’s religious tolerance, fertile land and good harbors attracting varied settlers?
Give two reasons why the Southern economy developed large plantations.
What was fertile soil and long growing seasons; availability of land for large plantations; demand in Europe for cash crops; access to labor through indentured servitude and enslaved Africans?
Explain how geography affected daily life and economy in one of the three regions
What was Southern: warm climate and fertile soil → cash crops and plantations; diseases like malaria affected labor and life. New England: rocky soil → shipbuilding, fishing; or Middle: fertile soil → grain production & diverse trades?
Name the Dutch governor of New Amsterdam who later surrendered the colony to the English
Who was Peter Stuyvesant/Peg Leg Pete?