Age of Discovery
These were the first people to settle in the Americas.
Who are the Native Americans?
Growing this crop produced the most money in Jamestown.
Name one New England Colony.
What are New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut?
Name one ethnic group that settled in the Middle Colonies.
Who are the Dutch, English, German, and Scottish-Irish?
This southern colony was populated by criminals from England.
What is Georgia?
Europeans left their lives behind to sail across the world for these reasons.
What is God, Gold, and Glory?
England's first two colonies. One failed, and one flourished.
What is Roanoke and Jamestown?
This infamous series of trials led to the execution of over twenty people in Massachusetts.
What is the Salem Witch Trials?
This colony was named after a Duke.
What is New York?
Due to flat, rich soil and long, hot summers the southern colonies were known for this practice.
These were two negative consequences of the Columbian Exchange.
What is Disease and the Slave Trade?
The 13 colonies are divided into these three regions.
What are the New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
This group of people founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony to find religious freedom. They found it but did not extend it to others.
Who are the Puritans?
The Middle Colonies produced large quantities of grain crops, garnering this nickname.
What is the Breadbasket Colony?
Due to the extensive practice of agriculture, the southern colonies lacked this institution.
What is formal education?
This Spanish conquistador is famous for leading the expedition that resulted in the fall of the Aztec Empire.
Who is Hernan Cortex?
This leader helped ensure the survival of Jamestown with his policy of "He who will not work shall not eat."
Who is John Smith?
These were the primary economic activities of New England due to the region's rocky soil and long winters.
What are shipbuilding, fishing, and trading?
These are the reasons why the Middle Colonies produced so much grain.
What is rich soil and a suitable climate?
This system of government saw wealthy plantation owners keep political power for themselves.
What is the class system?
Columbus landed on this Caribbean Island in 1492.
What is the Bahamas?
This Native American chief ruled over the region where Jamestown was founded and interacted with the settlers, sometimes through conflict and other times through diplomacy.
Who is Powhatan?
This is the reason why New England was the first region in the Americas that had public schools.
What is religion?
This prominent religious group in Pennsylvania believed in pacifism, equality, and inner light and was led by William Penn.
Who are the Quakers?
The categorization of the growing and sale of tobacco, rice, and indigo.
What are cash crops?