Cash Crops
This was a type of crop people grew to make a lot of money.
What is a cash crop?
In the Virginia colony, there was a rule "Those who don't work don't ______."
What is "eat"?
The first permanent English settlement.
What is Jamestown?
This man was the leader of the Virginia colony, even though he was not a gentleman.
Who was John Smith?
This was the name of the first English colony in the Americas.
What was Virginia?
This was the most popular cash crop in Virginia. People would chew or smoke it.
What is tabacco?
On large plantations, most of the work was done by these people.
This colony was a refuge, or safe place, for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
The Pilgrims sailed on this ship.
What was The Mayflower?
This woman was a Native American who befriended the Virginia colonists.
Who was Pocahontas?
Tobacco did not grow well in South Carolina, so instead colonists grew this grain crop.
What is rice?
These people would travel to the colonies and agree to work for someone for a set amount of time, such as 5 years. Then they would be free people.
Who are indentured servants?
A period of great hunger and suffering for the Virginia colonists.
What was the Starving Time?
The settlers in Maryland originally lived in these, left by the Native Americans.
What are wigwams?
This man began the Georgia colony for poor people. James O______.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
Also the name of a color, this was the 2nd most popular cash crop in South Carolina.
What is indigo?
It was dangerous to work on a rice plantation, because of snakes and _______.
What are mosquitoes/What is malaria?
This colony was intended as a new start for poor people and debtors, but the people in England made it very hard for debtors to leave.
What was Georgia?
The contract written by the Pilgrims when they arrived in their colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is a fence made from wooden or metal stakes driven into the ground. (Hint: the beginning of the word sounds like a synonym for castle)
What is a palisade?
James Oglethorpe did not originally want this in Georgia, but eventually allowed it in order to get enough workers for rice plantations.
A person appointed by the king to oversee and make decisions in a region or colony.
What is a governor?
This city became the largest in the 13 Colonies. (Hint: it was NOT New York City)
What is Philadelphia?
The act which allowed freedom of religion in the Maryland colony.
This was the name of the trip from America to England, then to Africa, and back to America. It was used to sell cash crops and acquire slaves from Africa.
What was the Middle Passage?