Colonies
The first permanent English settlement in America
Jamestown
Region known for fishing
New England
Named the “breadbasket”
Mid-Atlantic Colonies
Name of large farms in the south
plantations
Lived in America before colonists arrived
Native Americans
Important crop that helped Virginia make money
Tobacco
Common jobs in New England
fishing or shipbuilding
Crop that was grown a lot in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
wheat or grains
One cash crop grown in the south
tobacco
Helped Pilgrims survive their first winter
Squanto
Helped Jamestown survive by making colonists work
John Smith
Farming difficult in New England because...
ground had rock in the soil
Reasons the Mid-Atlantic Colonies were good for farming
rich soil
Reason plantation owners needed many workers
to grow a lot of crops
Native Americans taught colonists...
farm and hunt
Reasons settlers in Jamestown became sick
Dirty water, hunger, and disease
Natural resource that helped shipbuilding grow in New England
trees/wood
Reasons many different groups of people settled in the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
religious freedom and trade
Warm climate in the South was important because...
helped crops grow well
Helped Native Americans and colonists survive
cooperation
Native American group that lived near Jamestown
Powhatan
Reasons why many New England colonists lived near the ocean
fishing and trade
Colony founded by William Penn
Pennsylvania
The waterway that helped Southern colonists move crops for trade
rivers
Traded between the Native Americans and colonists
food, animal skins or tools