Vocab
Colonial Life
Important People
Need to Know
100

A person who takes a religious journey

Pilgrim

100

TRUE OR FALSE: Before growing rice at South Carolina's plantations, the swamps had to be drained and the fields cleared

TRUE

100

A royal colony was under control by a _______

Monarch

100

Who did the manual labor on South Carolina's very first plantations?

Enslaved people

200

Large estate farmed by many workers

Plantation

200

What type of environment did the middle colonies have?

Warm, long growing season, fertile soil for farming

200

Who worked hard to convert others to christianity and establish religious settlements?

Missionaries 

200

What was the main purpose of the Spanish borderlands?

To protect Mexico from European powers

300

Official document that gives certain rights to an individual or group

Charter

300

When John Smith got to Jamestown, what did he teach colonists?

He taught them how to farm and he assigned them tasks to help the colony as a whole

300

Who burned Jamestown out of spite of the new governor?

Nathaniel Bacon

300

What is the line creating a divide between Maryland and Pennsylvania? 

Mason-Dixon Line

400

Person who cannot pay his or her debts

Debtor

400

Why did the puritans leave England?

They no longer wanted to be persecuted for opposing the Church of England

400

A Native American who helped the pilgrims in Massachusetts by giving them seeds, showing them how to plant and where to fish

Squanto

400

What is the city of Brotherly Love?

Philadelphia, Pennyslvania 

500

Recognition that other people have the right to different opinions

Toleration

500

What was New York previously called before it was taken over by the English? 

New Netherlands

500

* Who was William Penn?

- Quaker Leader 

- A wealthy man

- He personally knew King Charles II

500

* What was William Penn's holy experiment? 

He wanted to find a place for Quaker's to live that was safe from persecution~ Philadelphia, The City of Brotherly Love