Colonial Regions
This region, known for its rich soil and large farms, was home to the first thirteen colonies.
What is the Southern Colonies?
This is a form of government where a monarch (king or queen) rules the nation.
What is a monarchy?
This term refers to the trade routes connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas, where goods and enslaved people were exchanged.
What is Triangular Trade?
This Italian merchant traveled to Asia and increased the desire for the Four S's after publishing a book about his experiences and travels.
Who is Marco Polo?
This was the first successful permanent English settlement established in North America.
What is Jamestown?
The colonies of Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut were part of this region.
What are the New England colonies?
This is the practice of people owning other people as property.
What is slavery?
These were crops that were sold to make money and were commonly grown within the Southern Colonies by enslaved people.
What are cash crops?
This was the middle leg (part) of the Triangular Trade when ships left Africa for the Americas with cargos of enslaved people.
What is the Middle Passage?
This crop became the economic backbone of the Jamestown colony, leading to its eventual survival.
What is Tobacco?
This colonial region was known as the "breadbasket colonies."
What are the Middle Colonies?
This term means to get, gain, or acquire something by force.
What is conquer?
This city within the Middle Colonies became a center of trade and shipping.
What is New York City
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What is Philadelphia
The compass is an example of technology developed and used during this age or period of time.
What is the Age of Exploration?
This colony was originally founded by the Dutch and later taken over by the English in 1664.
What is New Netherlands/New York
This colony was part of the Southern Colonies, which was where Jamestown was located and became known for its production of tobacco.
What is Virgina?
This is a group of people from one country who claim and build a settlement in another territory or land.
What is a colony
This was a form of payment commonly used in colonial America, in which a person worked for a set number of years without pay in exchange for passage to the New World.
What is indentured servitude?
Native Americans did this to oppose and refuse European colonization.
What is resistance?
This written agreement was created by Puritans on the Mayflower who pledged their loyalty to England.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Who are the Puritans? (Pilgrims)
This means the ability of people and societies to overcome and adapt to changes in the natural and social environment through slight changes to their usual way of life.
What is cultural adaptation?
These were laws passed that defined enslaved people as property and protected the practice of slavery in Southern Colonies
What are slave codes?
This conspiracy in New York City accused black arsonists (people who purposefully start fires) of starting a slave revolt and led to the mass arrest and execution of many enslaved people.
What is the Conspiracy of 1741?
The Puritans, who settled in Plymouth in 1620, were seeking religious freedom from this Church.
What is the Church of England?