Pocahontas
13 Colonies
Vocabulary
Potpourri
Abolitionists
100

What is the name of the settlement Pocahontas was imprisoned in?

Jamestown

100

What are the four New England Colonies?

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

100

What is a primary source?

Evidence of any kind that comes from the time being studied.

100

What is oral history?

A person’s account of an event or experience that is spoken out loud and later written down.

100

What is an abolitionist?

People who were opposed to slavery, began a movement to abolish, or end, the practice and to put an end to the transatlantic slave trade that supported it. 

200

What was Pocahontas' name she chose when she converted to Christianity?

Rebecca

200

What are the four Middle Colonies?

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware

200

What is a secondary source?

A description of history written later, that relies on primary sources for evidence.

200

Who ruled the 13 Colonies?

Britain

200

What were tactics used by Benjamin Lay to end slavery?

Writing pamphlets, planning protests that got people'sattention. 

300

Pocahontas' father was the chief of what Ingigenous Tribe?

The Powhatans

300

What are the five Southern Colonies?

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

300

What is an indentured servant?

A person who is bound to work without pay in the service of another for a specified length of time.

300

What are Big Game animals?

Mammoths, Caribou (reindeer), Bison (Buffalo)

300

Elizabeth Key may have been the first enslaved African American to do what?

Sue in court for her freedom.

400

Pocahontas was married to John Rolfe, what cash crop did he export to England?

Tobacco

400

When Massachusetts was founded by John Winthrop, he wanted to create a safe place for what group of people to practice their religion?

Puritans

400

What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?

The forced migration, on a massive organized basis, of African people to be enslaved in the Americas.

400

When the first people arrived in America where did they migrate from?

Siberia

400

Jenny Slewbelieved enslaved people should be ______ for their labor when they are freed. 

paid

500

Where was Pocahontas when she died?

In England

500

Who founded Pennslyvania?

William Penn

500

What is a slave factory?

The gathering place where African people were forced to wait and then processed for the Middle Passage.

500

What are motives that European Nations had for coming to North America?

land, money, pride, and fame

500

Name an argument abolitionists make related to ending slavery?

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