The Colonies
Historians have categorized the 13 colonies into these three colonial regions.
What is a Northern (or New England), Middle, and Southern colonies?
This was the only group of kids that typically went to school past the age of 12 or 13
What are wealthy kids?
A person working for free under a 5 to 7 year contract to pay off the money they borrowed to get to the colonies.
What is an indentured servant?
This system of trade brought raw materials from the Americas to Europe, manufactured goods from Europe to Africa, and slaves from Africa to the Americas.
What is a triangular trade?
Europeans emigrating to the colonies to work in the fur trade would have moved to one of these two colonial regions.
What is the northern or middle colonies?
What is an overseer?
These are three steps in the apprentice system.
What are apprentice, journeyman, and master?
Most colonial settlements were built near this physical feature to make sure the colony could survive and transport goods.
What is a body of water?
James Oglethorpe founded this colony for debtors and wanted it to be slave free, but failed to make it happen.
What is Georgia?
A one room schoolhouse where children of all ages were taught by an unmarried woman and learned together using hornbooks and primers.
What is a Dame School?
A form of government with a king or queen as its leader
What is a monarchy?
This was name for the "wealthy" social class in the colonies.
What is the gentry?
These were three of the major issues that made Jamestown such a deadly settlement in its earliest years.
What are unfriendly Native Americans, disease, lazy gentlemen, lack of food, lack of water, and spies?
The forced voyage for slaves across the Atlantic Ocean from the coast of Africa to the islands of the West Indies is often called this.
What is The Middle Passage?
A person that owes money
What is a debtor?
What are three reasons the average colonial life span was so short?
What are disease, lack of nutrition, and accidents?
These were the first four permanent settlements in North America?
What are St. Augustine, Jamestown, Quebec, and New Amsterdam?
Many of these laws were created in the colonies to help control the slave population.
What are slave codes?
A colonial region's industries were based on these three factors
What are climate, land, and proximity to water?
A crop grown strictly to make money from its production
Who is a cash crop?
These colonies make up the region known as the Middle Colonies.
What are Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, and New Jersey?
These are attributes that made the Puritans unique and influential to American history.
What are they allowed all men to vote, build universities, believed in hard work, and required schooling for all children?
This was the major cause of the increase of slaves in the 13 colonies.
What is the growth of the plantation system?