Blue
Red
Pink
Green
Yellow
100
The New England Colonies were founded for _______________ reasons.
Religious
100
Which is a crop that is raised only for profit?
Cash Crop
100
Jamestown was the first permanent English colony in America named for King James I.
True or False
True
100
Who was William Bradford?
founder and governor of the Plymouth Colony Settlement
100
Colonists who received passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a period of time are called
indentured servant
200
The Pilgrims landed in New England at Cape Cod. They chose a rocky harbor called ________.
Plymouth
200
What was the ship used by the Pilgrims to come to America?
Mayflower
200
Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey, and New York were part of the ____________ Colonies.
Middle
200
The House of Burgesses is important in history because it was the
first elective legislative body in America
200
Who founded the colony of Pennsylvania?
William Penn
300
Which colonies had a cold climate, thin, rocky soil and valuable natural resources?
New England
300
What is the name of a settlement that is ruled by another country?
Colony
300
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut were part of the ____________________ Colonies.
New England
300
The House of Burgesses gave the colonists in Virginia the opportunity to control _______________
their own government
300
James Oglethorpe founded what colony for debtors?
Georgia
400
Because farmers grew so much wheat,the Middle Colonies were known as the _________of the Colonies.
Bread Basket
400
10
400
The ____________________ Colonies had the warmest climate and the longest growing season
Southern
400
The role of colonies under the economic system of mercantilism was to --
provide the "mother country" with raw materials.
400
What religious group founded the Maryland Colony with Lord Baltimore?
Catholics
500
Because of its location, _______helped protect the other English colonies from possible Spanish attacks.
Georgia
500
Roanoke Island was an island off the coast of North Carolina that was the site of the "Lost Colony" where the people disappeared.
True or False
True
500
when was the mayflower compact signed?
1620
500
This was the western boundary for the 13 colonies.
Appalachian Mountains
500
What mainly caused an economic differences between the thirteen colonies?
Geography