Colonial Regions
This colonial region had the most stratified social structure, with planter elites, poor farmers, and slaves.
What are the southern colonies?
This is the term to describe the trading system that exchanged new plants, crops, people, and ideas from the Old World to the New World and vice-versa.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This rebellion in 1676 reflected tensions between frontier settlers, who were unhappy with the governor, and Native Americans in Virginia.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
This cultural movement emphasized science and reason in the 18th century, leading to the democratic ideas in America.
What is the Enlightenment?
What is an owl?
This colonial region had rocky soil, a short growing season, and relied on subsistence farming and shipbuilding.
What are the New England colonies?
This cash crop drove the demand for enslaved labor in the Caribbean.
What is sugar / sugarcane?
This war was led by Metacom and devastated New England towns?
What is King Philip's War?
This 1662 religious compromise in New England allowed partial church membership for children of baptized but non-converted members.
What is the Halfway Covenent?
In the first game of the NFL season, these two teams play tonight.
What are the Philadelphia Eagles and the Dallas Cowboys?
This colonial region attracted the greatest variety of European immigrants, including Dutch, Germans, and Scots-Irish.
What are the middle colonies?
This term describes the arduous voyage that enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic.
What is the Middle Passage?
These wars involved Virginia colonists in the early 1600s and ended with a marriage between Pocahontas and John Rolfe.
What are the Anglo-Powhatan Wars?
This system rewarded colonists with land for bringing indentured servants to Virginia.
What is the headright system?
This is "thank you" in Japanese.
What is arigato?
This colonial region combined religious tolerance with fertile land, leading to the fastest-growing population by 1750.
What are the middle colonies?
Within the triangular trading system, these are two examples of goods that the British colonies typically traded to Britain.
What are (ex. tobacco, sugar, rice, rum, etc.)
This Native alliance maintained power in the Great Lakes region through trade and peaceful exchanges of knowledge (before the Revolution).
What is the Iroquois Confederacy?
After Anne Hutchinson was exiled, disgruntled colonists formed this new colony based on religious toleration.
What is Rhode Island?
Name every "type" in my plushie Pokemon.
What are fire, flying, normal, ghost, and poison?
This is the colonial region that originated the "town hall" for democratic policy-making.
What are the New England colonies?
Within the triangular trading system, these are two examples of goods that the British traded to African kingdoms in exchange for slaves and spices.
What are (ex. firearms, gunpowder, textiles, rum, etc.)
This colony’s founder promoted peaceful relations with Native Americans in the 1600s.
What is Pennsylvania (founded by William Penn)?
These are the two preachers responsible for initiating the First Great Awakening.
Who are George Whitefield and Jonathon Edwards?
So far, this is the highest grossing (earning) movie of 2025 globally.
What is Lilo & Stitch?