New England
Middle
Southern
Important Figures
Vocabulary
100

The reason the Pilgrims left Europe for America.

What is religious freedom?

100

Before New York was called "New York", it belonged to the Dutch and was called...

What is New Netherland?

100

The main way the Southern colonies made money was by..

What is slave labor/owning plantations?

100

This woman was banished from Massachusetts Bay before joining Rhode Island.

Who is Anne Hutchinson?

100

This is a crop that is grown specifically to sell, not directly to eat or use.

What is cash crop?
200

The colony set up by Thomas Hooker and 100 people that left Massachusetts Bay.

What is Connecticut?

200

The most common nickname of the Middle Colonies

What is the Breadbasket?

200

The Jamestown Colony later became this British Colony

What is Virginia?

200

This man was the Puritan leader in the Massachusetts Bay Colony

Who is John Winthrop?

200

This is the word for a written plan of government,

What is a constitution?

300

The colony that was a place of religious tolerance, especially for those banished from Massachusetts.

What is Rhode Island?

300

This little state was a common place for iron mining

What is Delaware?
300

Some of the most commonly grown crops in the Southern colonies were

What is tobacco/rice/indigo?

300

This man founded Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts

Who is Roger Williams?

300

This is the name of the land that Southern farmers owned and forced enslaved people to work on.

What is plantation?

400

The soil in New England can best be described as...

What is rocky?

400
This colony was the home of the most Quakers, and also accepted Jews, Catholics, Protestants, and Amish.

What is Pennsylvania?

400

This state was founded by Lord Baltimore as a place for English Catholics to move to

What is Maryland?


400

This man founded the colony of Georgia as a place for English debtors.

Who is James Oglethorpe?

400

This document or charter, signed by King John in 1215, said that even the King was subject to the law and consequences.

What is the Magna Carta?

500

This major city became the capital of Massachusetts in 1632 and is still the capital today.

What is Boston?

500

This one-legged man was the Governor of New Netherland before the British captured it and renamed it New York.

What is Peter Stuyvesant?

500

The Carolinas were named after this British figure

Who is King Charles?

500
This Native American man helped the Pilgrims plant crops and catch fish after a devastating winter.

Who is Squanto?

500

This was the representative assembly that made laws and rules in Virginia.

What is the House of Burgesses?