Regions
This region has poor farming due to cold winter and rocky soils.
New England Colonies
This was the first colony attempted by the English in the New World. It was NOT successful and in fact nobody is sure what happened to it??
Roanoke
John Smith - the first successful leader of an English colony in the new world, demanded that in order to _______, his citizens must WORK. This made Jamestown successful.
What was the trade that existed between Europe, The Americas, and Africa called??
Triangular Trade
True or False
Most colonists lived on farms.
True
This colony has a long growing season and many large plantations. Slave labor was relied on.
Southern Colonies
The first successful permanent settlement of the English -
All citizens had to work in order to eat!
Jamestown
The Native American woman to help John Smith and the Jamestown colony was ....
Pocahontas
A document in which Pilgrims agreed on a of self-government with loyalty to the King and each other was called...
Mayflower Compact
Doctors in the colonies were best described as:
a) highly educated and skilled
b) ordinary citizens with not a lot of special citizens
c) there were no doctors in the colonies
B
This region produced grains and was often called the ‘breadbasket.”
Middle Colonies
What was the name of the colony that the Pilgrims settled?
Plymouth
Who was the first English child born in the new world?
Virginia Dare
The section of the Triangular Trade that saw slaves brought to the New World from Africa.
Middle Passage
Although school was not a high priority for colonial kids, there was a skill that was considered important.. what was it?
they wanted everyone to read
This was the most diverse region as it welcomed people from many faiths.
The colony of ______________ was founded by William Penn in 1682, as a safe place for Quakers to live and practice their faith.
Pennsylvania
Squanto helped which group of colonists to survive and learn to farm?
pilgrims
Says a Nation’s power is in its wealth - Colonies were used to build the wealth of the "mother" country -at the expense of the colony.
Mercantilism
Give a year that would have fallen in the Colonial Age?
1607-1776
Pilgrims and Puritans settled in this region.
New England Colonies
The colony of Georgia was different from the others in several ways. Name one.
a) slavery not allowed
b) alcohol not allowed
c) made for those in debtors prison
d) a buffer for South Carolina
In the 1600s, William Penn and many other Quakers left England and sailed for the New World on a ship they named "Welcome". They settled in what state?
Pennsylvania
saw 50,000 Puritans move from Europe to the New World
The Great Migration
Give three characteristics of a person that held power and rights in the colonies?
white, male, land-owning, church attending (in several cases)wealthy family