Settlements
This settlement was established in the colony of Virginia
What is Jamestown?
These colonies are known as the breadbasket colonies
What is Mid-Atlantic
This type of government is centered around a king or a queen
What is a Monarchy?
These colonies are known for having large plantations and long growing seasons.
What are the South colonies?
This European settlement was established by the Pilgrims in 1620.
What is Plymouth?
These colonies have large farms and a moderate growing season.
What are the Mid-Atlantic colonies?
The Virginia House of Burgesses and the Mayflower Compact are examples of this type of government.
What are self-governments / representative governments?
The first British settlement founded in 1607. This settlement was saved when the Natives showed them how to grow the cash crop tobacco.
What is Jamestown?
This was the first British settlement in North America
What is Jamestown
These colonies can be described as having rocky soil, fishing and ship building.
What are the New England colonies?
The first document to establish self-governance in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
European explorers where looking for this when they accidentally found the Americas.
What is Asia?
This settlement was established in Massachusetts
What is Plymouth?
A type of government where the people have a say in how the colony is ran
What is a representative government
This was the first legislative (law making) group of representatives in the colonies that led to the system of democracy in America
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Tobacco, Indigo, Rice and Cotton are known as this
What are Cash Crops?
Jamestown was established in Virginia for this specific reason.
What is to make money from tobacco business?
The New England colonies depended on this type of economy.
What is fishing, whaling and shipbuilding?
The Mayflower Compact and The Virginia House of Burgesses have this in common.
What is the self-governments / representative governments?
Plymouth was established in the Massachusetts Bay for this reason.
What is to help the Pilgrims escape religious persecution?