Jamestown and Plymouth
A person who makes a journey for religious reasons.
What is a Pilgrim?
This is the name for the movement of ships, people and resources between England, Africa and the New World.
What was Triangular Trade?
This group wanted a place to practice their religious beliefs and founded the Massachusetts Bay colony (Salem, Boston)in New England. They wanted to "purify" the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
This was the nickname of the Middle Colonies.
What was the breadbasket?
Some wealthy people lived on these large pieces of land with huge farms and multiple homes and slaves to help do the work.
What is a plantation?
This was a leader of Jamestown that improved their conditions by making the rule "If you don't work, you don't eat".
Who was John Smith?
A person who was skilled in a trade and could earn a living with this trade. Often found these people living in the Middle Colonies.
What is an artisan?
Name one of the main industries in New England?
What was shipbuilding, whaling, fur trading?
These crops grew well in the Middle Colonies and were exported. They were the reason the Middle Colonies have a nickname. (Name two)
What are wheat, corn, and rye?
These were the main cash crops. (name two)
What is tobacco, indigo, rice, cotton?
In this document, the signers agreed to make and obey fair laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Materials that are found in nature and can be used for economic gain.
What are natural resources?
These were exports of the New England colonies. (Name two)
What is lumber, fish, whale oils, furs, and grain?
Besides farming, this is another industry in the Middle Colonies.
What is artisans or merchants?
This tribe helped the Jamestown settlers.
Who were the Powhatans?
An area under political control by another country and occupied by setters from that country.
What is a colony?
Name the settlements that make up the New England colonies.
What was Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island?
What is a town meeting?
Many slaves came through this as they traveled on ships shackled together from Africa to the New World to be sold.
What is the Middle Passage?
The company that sponsored the first British settlement in the New World (Jamestown Colony)
What is the Virginia Company?
This was the name given to the owner of a colony.
What was a proprietor?
The settlers that came to the New England colonies could not do much farming for these two reasons.
What was the long, harsh winters and the rocky soil?
These are the many things that were produced by artisans for trade in the Middle Colonies. (name two)
What is glass, leather goods, shoes, barrels, axes, guns, nails?
These are the settlements that make up the Southern Colonies.
What are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia?