People
Who are the French, the Dutch, the English, and the Spanish.
What is the name of the rebellion that took place in Jamestown, VA?
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This is the name of the island that the Lenape people sold to the dutch to create "New Amsterdam".
What is Manahatta? (Sound familiar?)
Out of the following three: Southern Colonies, Middle Colonies, or New England, which area had extreme religious intolerance.
What is New England?
This is the reason Columbus referred to the native peoples he met as "Indians."
What is he had been searching for a way to India?
Who originally controlled New York and named "New Amsterdam"
Who are the Dutch?
What are some things the Spanish did that damaged their relations with the Natives?f
What is enslavement, forced conversion to Christianity, war, taking of gold and silver, DISEASE.
This is the name of the land bridge between Asia and America that allowed humans to come to the Americas.
What is Beringia, or the Bering Straight
Out of the following three: Southern Colonies, Middle Colonies, or New England, which were called the "breadbasket", because they were good for growing wheat.
What are the Middle Colonies?
These are two reasons people might rebel.
Any of the following:
- unfair taxes
- lack of rights
- violent oppression
- Disagreement over issues
He created a rebellion in Jamestown, Virginia.
Who is Bacon?
The trade between England, Africa, and the US that resulted in natural resources from US sent to England, guns and other products sent to Africa, and slaves sent from Africa to the US. (Hint - its named for a shape)
What is Triangle Trade?
This part of the American colonies had rich soil that was good for planting, and warm weather that supported a long growing season.
What is the South?
This is the name for the spread of goods from the Americas to other parts of the world, and vice versa. HINT: It's named after the man we celebrate as being the first European to come to the Americas
This is the name of the English settlement who came to New England (hint - these were the Pilgrims)
What is the Plymouth colony?
These two colonizers had relatively positive relationship with the native population.
Who are the Dutch and the French?
Why did Bacon want to rebel?
Any of the following:
- He wanted to attack the natives and he was annoyed the government had made deals with them.
- He wanted power.
- He objected to taxes
This was the first settlement of English in the United States. (hint, it disappeared)
The Roanoke Colony
Out of the following three: Southern Colonies, Middle Colonies, or New England, which had Mercantilism?
What are the Middle Colonies?
What was the main reason the English went to the Jamestown Colony in Virginia
To make money with silver and gold mining (there was none to mine).
What was the main reason the Pilgrims went to the Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts?
To have religious freedom.
This is the second (first successful) English settelement in the United States.
What is Jamestown, VA?
What is "Mercantilism"?
This word means a colonial system where the colony sends raw natural resources (wood, cotton, tobacco, iron ore) to its 'mother country', and the mother country processes these goods and sells them back to the colony at a higher price as cloth, furniture, guns, etc. **VERY LITTLE IS ACTUALLY MADE IN THE COLONY**