New England Colonies
This document, signed aboard a ship in 1620, was an agreement to make laws for the good of Plymouth Colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact
Because they produced so much grain, the Middle Colonies were called this nickname.
What is the “Breadbasket Colonies”?
In 1712, this colony split into two parts: North and South.
What is the Carolina Colony.
The 13 Colonies were divided into these three regions.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
This man led the first successful English colony at Jamestown, Virginia.
Who is John Smith.
This group of people came to New England to escape religious persecution and build a “city upon a hill.”
Who were the Puritans
This colony was founded by William Penn as a safe place for Quakers.
What is Pennsylvania?
This Southern Colony was founded as a safe place for Catholics
What is Maryland.
This was the first permanent English colony in America, founded in 1607.
What is Virginia(Jamestown)
This man founded Pennsylvania as a safe place for Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
New England’s rocky soil made large plantations difficult. Instead, colonists turned to these two main industries.
What are fishing and shipbuilding
Quakers refused to fight in wars because they practiced this principle.
What is a pacifist.
This term describes a crop grown mainly to be sold for profit, and it was the main source of money for the Southern Colonies.
What is a cash crop.
This was the last of the 13 Colonies to be founded, in 1732.
What is Georgia.
This man founded Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics.
Who is Lord Baltimore.
Town meetings in New England showed that colonists valued this type of government.
What is self/government or democracy
These two cities grew into major trade centers in the Middle Colonies.
What are New York and Philadelphia?
This crop, known as “Carolina Gold,” was the main export of South Carolina.
What is rice.
The 13 Colonies were all ruled by this European country.
What is England (Great Britain).
This leader helped establish Georgia in 1732 as a colony for debtors and a buffer against Spanish Florida.
Who is James Oglethorpe.
This colony was founded by Roger Williams after they were banished from Massachusetts for their religious beliefs.
What is Rhode Island
The Middle Colonies stood out from the other regions because they had the greatest amount of this.
What is diversity.
This system of large farms relied on enslaved Africans to grow cash crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo.
What is the plantation system.
Colonists came to the New World for these two main reasons.
What are economic opportunity and religious freedom.
This minister left Massachusetts and founded the colony of Rhode Island, where people could have religious freedom.
Who is Roger Williams.