vocabulary
blue dye from the Indigo Plant used in the cloth making process
Maryland was founded by what family?
The Calvert Family
Virginia
Norfolk
Maryland's government aided former indentured servants with _______________
things like: land, clothes, tools, and corn
The Great Wagon Road reached this part of the "back- country"
the Piedmont
depending on one another for economic resources
interdependence
__________ this person took over after George Calvert died
Cecilius Calvert
South Carolina
Charles Town
The Carolina Colony was very difficult to govern because:
The colony grew too large, and colonists ignored unpopular laws, leading to a split in 1712.
South Carolina, due to swampy land, focused on growing:_______________ (this cash crop was also found in the southern part of the colonies)
Rice
a person who is paid to buy and sell for someone else
broker
George Calvert was also known as who?
Lord Baltimore
North Carolina
Wilmington
In what ways did the economy of the Southen Colonies depend on the practice of Slavery?
1. cheap labor
2. the plantation owner wouldn't have to do it themselves
3. the labor was needed to grow cash crops
North Carolina focused on growing: ________
Tobacco & corn
someone who was hired to watch over enslaved people as they were working
overseer
Who helped settle the colony of Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
Maryland
Baltimore
conflicts between Southern colonists & Native Americans:
Southern colonists settled on Native land & destroyed their villages, treated them poorly, captured them, and even sold some of them. Also, Southern colonists spread a lot of disease.
The ____ act gave religious freedom to all Christians in the Maryland Colony
the Toleration Act
plantation owners
planter
which religion did the Calvert family follow?
Catholicism (Catholic)
Georgia
Savannah
enslaved Africans dealt with the hardships of their live by:
1. speaking about their culture & similarities
2. faith & their religion
3. breaking tools, working slowly, pretending to be sick just to get a break from the work
The first colonists (many indentured servants) were sent to Maryland in:______
1633