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Vocabulary and Dates
European Exploration
Jamestown and Plymouth
Economics
Name the Places!
100

The year Plymouth was founded.

What is 1620?

100

The French gained profits from the sale this item to Europe.

What is fur?

100
The reason the Pilgrims left Europe.

What is religious persecution?

100
These were exports of the New England colonies. (Name two)
What is lumber, dried fish, whale oils, furs, and grain?
100
An alternative to debtor's prison.

What is Georgia?

200

These include indigo, tobacco, and cotton.

What are cash crops?

200

A country that wanted to convert Native Americans to Catholicism.

What is Spain?

200
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?
200
These crops grew well in the Middle Colonies and were exported. They gave these colonies the nickname the "breadbasket" colonies. (Name two)
What are wheat, corn, and rye?
200

The colony with North America's first written constitution.

What is Connecticut?

300
A person who makes a journey for religious reasons.
What is a Pilgrim?
300

Name two places originally colonized by Spain.

What are Cuba, Puerto Rico, Mexico, Texas, and/or California? 

300

In this document, the signers agreed to establish self-government due to the distance from England.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

300

Large farms where cash crops were grown in the South.

What are plantations?

300

Name three Southern colonies.

Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland

400

The year Jamestown was founded.

What is 1607?

400

This word means to accept religious differences.

What is tolerance?

400

This Powhatan tribe member helped the Jamestown settlers.

Who was Pocahontas?

400

Name one push factor and one pull factor that caused people to move from Europe to the colonies.

Push: poverty, religious persecution

Pull: Glory, God, and Gold

400

The names of all four New England colonies.

What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island?

500

A person who agreed to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time.

What was an Indentured Servant?

500

A geographic feature that blocked colonists from moving further west.

What are the Appalachian Mountains?

500

A legislative assembly that met in Jamestown to make decisions for Virginia.

What is the House of Burgesses?

500

The journey from Africa to the Americas; part of Triangluar Trade.

What is the Middle Passage?

500

A major trade center of the Middle Colonies.

What is New York City?