Geography
The 13 colonies are located in this area.
What is along the Atlantic coast/Northeastern coast?
English colonists came to the New England region (e.g., Massachusetts, New Hampshire, etc.) for this reason.
What is religious freedom/religious motivations?
Founded by William Penn, this colony settled in the Middle Colonies and believed that all people were equal. They refused to fight wars, as they were Pacifist.
What is the colony of Pennsylvania?
A plant that is sold for a profit (e.g., tobacco, indigo, rice, etc.)
What are cash crops?
People who refuse to use force or fight in wars.
What is a Pacifist?
This ocean is along the eastern coast of the United States.
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Name (1) of the groups that left the Church of England to practice religion freely in America.
Who are the Pilgrims and/or Puritans?
Originally named New Netherland & was a Dutch colony.
What is New York?
The major cash crop of the Jamestown/Virginia colony.
What is tobacco?
To mistreat a person/group on the basis of their beliefs.
What is persecution/to persecute?
Name (1) of the New England colonies.
What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut and/or Rhode Island?
This group wanted a place to practice their religious beliefs and founded the Massachusetts Bay colony in New England. They wanted to "purify" the Church of England.
Who are the Puritans?
Name of the colony that was originally founded by the Swedish.
What is Delaware?
The (2) major cash crops of the Carolinas were ________ & _____.
What are rice and indigo?
A group of people who undertake a religious journey.
What are Pilgrims?
Name (1) of the Middle colonies.
What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and/or Delaware?
Name (1) of the major industries in the New England region.
What are fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, rum, cattle/grain, furs, etc.?
Name of the city that means "brotherly love".
What is Philadelphia, PA?
Name of the proprietary colony established as a refuge for Catholics by Sir George Calvert.
What is Maryland?
People who agreed to work without pay for certain lengths of time in exchange for passage to America.
What is Indentured Servant?
Name (2) of the Southern colonies.
What are Virginia, Maryland, North/South Carolina, and/or Georgia?
The FIRST written form of colonial government on the North American Continent. This is a key document.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This nickname was given to the Middle colonies because they grew so much wheat.
What are the "breadbasket" colonies?
This colony was founded to give debtors/poor people an opportunity to "start over". This colony also served as a defense buffer from Florida, a Spanish colony.
What is Georgia?
This was the name given to the owner of a colony.
What is a proprietor?