First Settlements
The people of this first settlement in 1587 mysteriously disappeared without a trace and were never found.
What is Roanoke?
This is created when a group of people settle in a new place but keep ties to their mother country.
What is a Colony?
This colony was the smallest in area and is the smallest state by land area today.
What is Rhode Island?
This was a group that settled in the Middle Colonies and believed that all people were equal. They refused to fight wars.
Who are the Quakers?
This colony was the furthest north of the Southern colonies
What is Maryland Colony?
This group of English people came and settled the Plymouth Colony in 1607 for religious freedom.
Who are the Pilgrims?
A person who agreed to work for another person without pay for a certain length of time and then receive their freedom dues.
What is an Indentured Servant?
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 are the Puritans?
This colony was first known as Pennsylvania's lower three counties before becoming its own colony.
What is Delaware?
A large number of these people were forced to work for no pay without the possibility of freedom.
What is a slave?
This was the first leader of Jamestown that improved their conditions by making the rule "If you don't work, you don't eat".
Who is John Smith?
The transfer of plants, animals, disease, people, ideas, and culture from the Old World to the New World is known as this.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This were the two leading industries in New England?
What is fishing and shipbuilding?
New Jersey Colony is located in between these two major trading/port cities
What are New York City and Philadelphia?
These large farms made up a huge part of the Southern economy.
What is a plantation?
In this 1620 document, a first of its kind, the signers agreed to make and abide by fair laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This was the purchase, transportation, and sale of enslaved people from Africa to the Americas.
What is the Atlantic Slave Trade?
Plymouth would eventually be dissolved and become part of this neighboring colony.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
A Quaker who helped found the colony of Pennsylvania. He was member of the "Society of Friends".
Who is William Penn?
He founded Georgia to help debtors pay back their debts.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
The Chief of the Powhatan tribe's daughter who helped the Jamestown settlers.
Who is Pocahontas?
This is the sea journey undertaken by slave ships from West Africa to the West Indies.
What is the Middle Passage?
These were exports of the New England colonies. (Name two)
What is ships, lumber, fish, whale oil, furs, and grains?
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, barley, and rye?
These were cash crops exported from the Southern Colonies. (Name two)
What are cotton, tobacco, indigo, and rice?