European Exploration
European explorers wanted to find new routes to this continent because of its valuable goods.
What is Asia?
Spain financed my famous 1492 voyage across the Atlantic.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
Name two New England Colonies.
Massachusetts Bay, New Hampshire, Connecticut, or Rhode Island.
Name two Middle Colonies.
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, or Delaware.
Name two Southern Colonies.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia.
This valuable Asian product was one reason Europeans wanted new trade routes.
What are spices?
I explored the New England coastline in 1497.
Who is John Cabot?
This type of soil made farming difficult.
What is rocky soil?
This type of land made the region good for farming.
What is fertile land?
The South had fertile land and this type of weather.
What is mild weather?
Portugal attempted to reach Asia by sailing this direction around Africa.
What is east?
The continents of North and South America were named after me.
Who is Amerigo Vespucci?
These two natural resources were especially important to New England.
What are lumber and fish?
This important crop was grown in the Middle Colonies.
What is wheat?
Name three major Southern crops.
Any three: cotton, tobacco, indigo, rice, sugarcane.
Besides wealth and trade, Europeans wanted to spread this religion.
What is Christianity/Catholicism?
My expedition became the first to sail completely around the world. (Kinda)
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
This 1636–1637 conflict was fought between settlers and the Pequot people.
What is the Pequot War?
Compared with the other colonial regions, the Middle Colonies were known for having more of this toward different religious backgrounds.
What is religious tolerance?
The Southern agricultural economy increasingly relied upon the forced labor of these people.
Who were enslaved people?