Southern Colonies
General Vocabulary 1
Middle Colonies
General Vocabulary 2
New England Colonies
100

African who were brought over to the colonies on ships to work on farms

Who are slaves?

100

to soak up water

What is absorb?

100

A popular crop

What is wheat?

100
To float slowly
What is drift?
100

Describe the soil

What is rocky?

200

They allowed people to practice any religion

What is religious tolerance?

200

A short period of time

What is brief?

200

New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

What are the middle colonies?

200

Where the water meets the land

What is the coast?

200

The liquid the colonist got from whales

What is oil?

300

Soil that is rich with nutrients

What is fertile?

300

Timber, (wood) the sun, animals

What are natural resources?

300

They allowed people to practice any religion

What is religious tolerance?

300

Cows

What is cattle?

300

An important occupation in the New England Colonies

What is a shipbuilder?

400

A boy who wanted to come to the new World but could not pay for his own ship ticket.

Who is an indentured servant?

400

A variety

What is diverse?

400

Food grains make

What is bread?

400

Another word for farming

What is Agriculture?
400

New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut

What are the New England Colonies

500

A very large farm

What is a plantation?

500

Closely packed together

What is dense?

500

The middle colony Nickname

What is the breadbasket colony?

500

Where ships dock

What is a port?

500

Describe religion in New England

What is intolerant?