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Which region's colonist were searching for religious freedom?
What are the New England colonies?
Founder of Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn
Last colony to be settled
What is Georgia?
religious freedom
This region has mild/moderate winters and hot summers.
What is the Southern region?
Founded by the Dutch and later became the colony of New York..
What is New Netherlands ?
This region's economy depended on large plantations that grew cotton, indigo, and tobacco.
What is the southern region also known as the southern colonies?
Also called the "Bread Basket" colonies
What are the middle colonies?
The first permanent English colony in the Americas
What is Jamestown?
This group of people founded the colony of New Netherlands which later became the colony of New York.
Who are the Dutch?
These 3 groups wanted to establish new colonies for religious freedom.
What are the Quaker, the Puritans, and the Catholics?
First English colony in America that mysteriously vanished
What is Roanoke?
Settlers in New England who were known for their devout faith and strict religious laws
Puritans
This means to send goods out of a country
What is export?
This crop helped save Jamestown.
tobacco
This group believed in the town meeting system where each community should rule itself.
Who are the Puritans?
Name 2 things that people in each of the regions has to adapt differently to so they could survive?
What are the geography and available resources?
Name the New England colonies
Massachusetts
New Hampshire
Connecticut
Rhode Island
Pennsylvania was mainly settled by what religious group?
Who are the Quakers?
What are the 3 ways the settlers changed the land once they begin settling.
1. Cleared the land for farming
2. Grew crops that changed the soil.
3. Built roads for easier travel
Official paper where the rights are given by a government to a person, a group, or a business.
What is a charter?
Founder of Georgia.
Who is James Oglethrope?
The 13 colonies were divided into 3 regions. There were 3 major differences. Name the 3 differences.
1. Geography and Climate
2. Economics
3. Religion
Name the Middle colonies
New York
Pennsylvania
Delaware
New Jersey
Having the ability to produce most everything that one person needs.
What is self-sufficient?
Motivation for the settlement of South Carolina as well as other southern colonies.
economic profit
Signed a contract to work as a servant in order to gain passage to the colonies.
What is an indentured servant?
Name the Southern Colonies
South Carolina
North Carolina
Virginia
Maryland
Georgia
What is mercantilism?
Name of the colonial government in Virginia
What is the House of Burgesses?