New England Colonies
Name the five New England Colonies.
Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
The 13 Colonies were divided into how many regions?
Three: New England, Middle, Southern
Name the four Middle Colonies.
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey
A New Settlement by a country
Colony
Name the four Southern Colonies.
Virgina, Maryland, The Carolinas, Georgia
New England Colonies had rocky soil and a cold climate, so most people could not grow large crops. They focused on what three things?
Fishing, shipbuilding, and trade
Wealthy Landowners and merchants were called Upper class or ???
Gentry Class
A single person that owns a colony.
Proprietor
What Europeans called the Americas
The New World
Jamestown Colony was located in which modern day state?
Virginia
What played an important role in the New England Colonies? Every town had one of these.
Education/Schools
This trade connected the new colonies with Europe and Africa.
Triangular Trade
The Middle Colonies were known as the ____________
because they grew lots of grains like wheat, barley, and oats.
Breadbasket Colonies
a person who borrowed money to come to the colonies and had to work to pay off their debt
Indentured Servant
The Southern Colonies economy focused on the growing of:
Cash Crops such as Tobacco, Cotton, Indigo and Rice
The Pilgrims wanted to break away from the Church of England, so they settled in Massachusetts in a colony called?
Plymouth Bay Colony
A brutal voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the colonies?
Middle Passage.
Who were the Quakers?
a religious group that believed in the equal treatment of everybody and in living a simple life
What type of government was practiced by the colonists through town meetings and colonial assemblies?
Self-government
Which colony was intended to be a "defensive buffer" from the Spanish in Florida?
Georgia
The Puritans wanted to:
A. force the church to live a simple lifestyle and treat everybody as equals
B. to purify the Church and simplify the Church’s ceremonies and ranks of authority
C. start a business venture by sending the poor to work off their debts
B. to purify the Church and simplify the Church’s ceremonies and ranks of authority
What are Cash Crops?
a crop produced for its commercial Value rather than for use by the grower.
Example: Tobacco, Rice, Grain, Indigo, Coffee
King George II gave a large chunk of land to this person as a repayment for a debt he owed to his father.
William Penn
Most of the Colonies were established for which following motivation?
A. God
B. Glory
C. Gold
Most of the Colonies were established for:
A. God
Colonists were escaping religious persecution from a tyrannical leader in the King
The South had Plantations, Plantations are:
Large estates that grow cash crops such as tobacco that house the Laborers who work on the fields