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Early Colonies
Early Colonies 2
Early Colonies 3
100

People who move from place to place

What is a Nomad 

100

Boat ride across the Atlantic 

Middle Passage 

100

The crop that saved Jamestown

Tobacco

100

Cotton, rice, & tobacco

What are cash crops from the Southern Colonies

100
Type of democracy in which EVERYONE is allowed to vote 

Direct Democracy

200

Limited King's power

What was the Magna Carta

200

Exchanging goods, ideas, & diseases, from Africa, Europe, and the Americas 

Columbian Exchange 

200

What did gold represent of the 3 G's?

Economic opportunities/wealth

200

Known as the bread basket of the colonies

What is Pennsylvania 

200

Hands off approach allowing British colonies to be semi-independent 

Salutatory Act

300

England' first settlement in North America

What is Jamestown 

300

Allowed colonizers to navigate north and south by water in the middle of the new world

What is the Mississippi River

300

Early workers at Jamestown were? 

Indentured Servants 

300

Name 2 Elements of the Enlightenment

Reason & Scientific Methods 
300

A group called the Puritan Religious Beliefs spread throughout the new colonies.

What was the Great Awakening

400

Examples include; harbors, trees, rivers, fertile soil

What are natural resources

400

First law protecting religious freedom

Maryland Toleration Act

400

The French were profiting from what in the Ohio River Valley

Fur Trade 

400

What was the first act which protected religious freedom?

Maryland Toleration Act

400

Cause; The Appalachian Mountains were a natural barrier

Effect-limited colonial westward expansion

500

People who exchange service for freedoms 

What is an Indentured Servant 

500

First legislative body in the colonies

House of Burgesses

500

Established a set of agreements for everyone to follow prior to arriving at Plymouth Rock

What was the Mayflower Compact?

500

What country owned/controlled the southwest of the US?

Spain 

500

1619

The year slaves were first brought from Africa and sold in the colonies

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