The Beginning
What was the first permanent settlement of the 13 colonies?
What is Jamestown, Virginia
What were the major religious group(s) of the New England colonies?
Who are the Pilgrims and Puritans
What was the belief system of the Quakers?
What is peace and equality for all
What differentiated the Southern colonies from the Middle and Northern colonies?
What is a cash crop?
Crops that are grown for the purpose of trading it for a profit rather than for personal use
What were the three groups who left Europe for religious freedom?
Who are the Puritans, Quakers and Pilgrims
What was the first successful settlement of the New England Colonies?
What is Plymouth
Why were entrepreneurs drawn to the middle colonies?
What are the cash crops of the southern colonies?
What is tobacco and cotton
What is the Mayflower Compact?
one of America’s first documents of organized self-government!
What is the spread of disease and slavery
What are the states that make up the New England colonies?
What is New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut
What are the states that make up the middle colonies?
What is New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware
What are the states that make up the southern colonies?
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina Maryland and Georgia
What is the middle passage?
A voyage across the Atlantic Ocean where Africans, who were forced into slavery in the American colonies, suffered unbearable conditions and horrific treatment on the way.
What were the major cash crops of the 13 colonies?
What are the contributing factors of New England's economy?
fishing, trading, and boat building
Who was the person that encouraged education and supported abolishing slavery in the middle colonies?
Who is William Penn
What was the culture of the Southern colonies?
People were not well educated, only land owning men and boys has education, slaves lived on plantations and were a large portion of farm production and men and women has very traditional roles.
What is the "breadbasket" colony and why is it named that?
What it the middle colonies for their crops of wheat and grains
North America was originally colonized by what three groups?
Who are Spanish, French and British
What were major differences between roles of men and women in the New England colonies?
Men took part in politics, church leadership and farming. Women took care of the children, cooked and were not allowed to participate in politics
Why were the middle colonies considered to be the most advanced?
What is their exchanging of ideas and value of learning
What is the Powhatans
What was the word that was left by the lost colony?
What is "croatoan"