13 Colonies ONE
The Puritans came over to the new world in search of what?
Religious Freedom
Many enslaved Africans and indentured servants worked in the colonial region on large plantations.
What is Southern colonies?
These people worked on the plantations to repay their passage to the new world.
Indentured servants
Bringing goods into a country from another location.
Import
These people were forced to work on the plantations from sunup to sundown.
Enslaved people
They grew many grains like wheat and barley in what region?
The middle
18
In what region were children tutored at home?
Southern
What is a territory settled by people from another country and controlled by that country?
A colony
What caused "Peg Leg Pete" to lose part of his leg in New Amsterdam in 1664?
A cannonball
The Southern colonist lived on large farms called ___.
What is a plantation?
These crops are grown for money and not for personal use.
Cash crops
Who is a person who buys and sells goods?
A merchant
What was the name of the tribe of Indigenous people that the Pilgrims from the Mayflower needed support from?
Wampanoag
New England colonist became well known for this particular trade.
Shipbuilding
What year was Jamestown colonized?
What is 1607?
What was the most needed item made and repaired by the town blacksmith?
Horseshoes
What was the name of the Plymouth Plantation's seccond leader that built stability and wrote journals called History of Plymouth Plantation.
William Bradford
Who was one of the most important tradesmen throughout the colonies?
A blacksmith
What do you call a person who is learning a trade by working with someone that is skilled in that field?
Apprentice
Name 3 reasons why it was difficult to grow crops in the New England colonies.
Very Cold
Long winters
Hard, rocky soil
1. Why didn't the Mayflower make it to Jamestown?
2. About how many days did it take to get across the Atlantic Ocean?
1. Then wind and bad weather
2. 63 days
Name the three main cash crops that were grown in the Southern Colonies.
Tobacco
Indigo
Cotton
Why were market towns often built near a river or waterways?
To transport crops and goods to the markets more easily.
How many people from the Mayflower survived after the first hard winter?
53 people survived