Namesakes
Jamestown was named after this monarch.
King James VI of Scotland/King James I of England?
A document from a sovereign granting a right.
Charter
This New England colony founded by puritans was the first in its region.
Massachusetts
This colony was controlled by the Dutch before it was renamed to New York and New Jersey.
New Amsterdam
This first attempt at colonization would be considered a failure when the colony disappeared.
Roanoke
New York was named after the this royal title.
The Duke of York
Agricultural product intended to be sold for profit.
Cash crop
Colonists discovered they could make money for the investors of the Virginia Company by planting this cash crop.
Tobacco
Before the English took control of New Netherlands, people from Sweden had settled the landed this Middle Colony.
Delaware
This attack on Native lands and the colony of Jamestown was sparked by a want for more land and a dissatisfaction with Governor Berkeley.
Bacon’s Rebellion
The name Pennsylvania literally means this.
Penn’s Woods
A person who pledges his or her labor for an amount of time in exchange for some payment.
Indentured servant
The pilgrims on the Mayflower founded this colony in Massachusetts.
Plymouth
This wealthy English Quaker received this eponymous land as payment for a debt that King Charles II owed his father.
William Penn
This colony was founded for the purpose of giving debtors and poor people a fresh start.
Georgia
Georgia was not named after the country of the same name but rather after this monarch.
King George II
To harass, bully, or punish.
Persecute
People in the New England colonies engaged in this practice of growing enough food to feed families without having leftovers to trade or sell.
Subsistence farming
A wealthy colonial landowner who paid for the voyage of settlers so that they could received the land from the Dutch West India Company.
South Carolina and Georgia had the fastest growing economies due to this cash crop.
Rice
King Charles II created a proprietary colony south of Virginia called Carolina which is latin for this.
Charles’s Land
A large farm or estate that grows a cash crop using enslaved labor.
Plantation
Minister Roger Williams founded with colony based on the belief that government should not force people to believe in a certain religion and colonists should pay for Native land.
Rhode Island
This colony was given to Lord John Berkeley and Sir George Carteret by the Duke of York and is named after an island in the English Channel.
New Jersey
This colony began as a haven for Catholics in the New World before they became outnumbered by Puritans.
Maryland