Geography of Colonies
This is the first permanent colony of the English in North America.
What is Jamestown?
A person that settles in a new land.
What is a Colonist?
This valuable cash crop was a stable of the southern colonies
What is cotton?
This was the first attempted colony by the English in North America and it famously disappeared.
What is Roanoke?
Most colonist lived in towns or farms?
Farms
This colony is the furthest south on the map.
What is Georgia?
These are crops grown for their value and were key to the colony's success.
What are cash crops?
Gold and this metal were sent to Europe in exchange for weapons.
What is iron?
King James gave the Virginia Company a charter to establish a new colony in North America. This colony was
What is Jamestown?
The West Indies produced this valuable cash crop.
What is sugar?
The New England, _________, and Southern colonies are the three major regions of English colonies in North America.
This word came to indicate a group of colonists seeking to purify the Church of England.
What is Puritan?
The Americas received manufactured goods in exchange for _____ materials.
This individual we read about was captured off of the coast of Africa and enslaved, however earned his freedom.
Who is Olaudah Equiano?
The southern most regions of colonies are called this.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The Triangular Trade route connected these three continents: The Americas, Europe, Africa and these islands...
What are The West Indies?
This is the action by a country to establish colonies in a new land.
What is colonization?
Enslaved Africans were shipped across this passage of the Triangle Trade System.
What is the Middle Passage?
This was the revival of religion in the English colonies.
What is the Great Awakening?
The English were not the only ones to colonize North America, as were the French and...
Who are the Spanish?
This colony in New England was settled by the Puritans and Pilgrims, escaping religious persecution in England.
What is Massachusetts?
This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and The Americas.
What is the Triangle Trade System?
What is the Breadbasket region?
Johnathan Edwards was an important figure in the Great Awakening because of his profession as a...
What is a Preacher?
This famous Powhatan woman helped John Smith, and the rest of the Jamestown colony survive the starving time.
Who is Pocahontas?