Vocabulary
This refers to the trade of ideas, products, people, and diseases in the 16th-17th century.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This Massachusetts colony is where the Pilgrims settled.
What is Plymouth?
This region's economy depended on slave labor.
What is the Southern Colonies region?
This Virginia institution was the first attempt at representative democracy in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This term refers to the journey enslaved Africans were forced to take from their homes to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
What is Carolina?
This region had the greatest diversity and largest population.
What is the Middle Colonies region?
This document was an early example of self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This term means "defensive wall."
What is a bulwark?
This colony was the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
This region was known as the "breadbasket" because of its mild winters, fertile soil, and large population of farmers.
What is the Middle Colonies region?
This cash crop (and the help of John Rolfe and John Smith) helped the colony of Jamestown survive.
What is tobacco?
This is a term for someone who worked a certain amount of time for someone else in exchange for passage to the New World.
What is an indentured servant?
This colony was founded as a place where Catholics could worship freely.
What is Maryland?
This region conducted trade in furs, lumber, and fish to send by ship to England.
What is the New England colonies region?
This is the year that enslaved people were first brought to the colonies.
What is 1619?
This term means "representative."
What is a burgess?
This colony was founded to give debtors a place to work and repay the money they owed.
What is Georgia?
This region provided a buffer zone from the Spanish in Florida.
What is the Southern Colonies region?
The Disney movie Pocahontas told the story of this young woman. (Looking for her birth name.)
Who is Matoaka?