Vocabulary 1
A person who signed a contract to work for 5-7 years in exchanges for a passage into the New World.
Indentured Servant
A group of people who join together for a common cause.
Confederacy
Cotton or Tobacco both accepted
Who helped establish religious freedom in the Middle Colonies.
William Penn
True or False: The New England colonies were based on farming.
False
Two or more groups working together.
Cooperation
To accept another's beliefs
Tolerate
What was the first settlement to survive in North America?
Jamestown
What was the nickname given to the middle Colonies because they produced a lot of crops like wheat, corn, barley and rye?
The Breadbasket
The New England Colonies were unsuitable for some crops, like this ....
wheat
cotton
indigo
A special promise or agreement between a person and God.
Covenant
a person who owes money to another
debtor
What 2 Southern colonies were once joined together as one colony?
North Carolina and South Carolina
What was one apprenticeship available in the middle colonies?
shoemaking, carpentry, candle makers, wigmakers, apothecaries, carpenters, fuelllers
A major export of the New England Colonies.
Whale products
A landowner
Proprietor
A written grant by a country's legislative or sovereign power, by which a body such as a company, college, or city is founded and its rights and privileges defined
charter
Why was the colony of Maryland founded?
Looking for a safe haven for Catholics.
They had a mild climate, longer growing season and fertile soil
Puritans
A plant that produces blue dye
Indigo
Having to do with farming
agriculture
What was the main reason Georgia was founded?
A place for debtors.
Why was Ben Franklin important to the Middle Colonies?
He was an inventor and the Postmaster of Philadelphia.
The New England colonies had this type of winters
Long and Cold