Colonial 1
On May 14, 1607, 100 settlers founded the first permanent English settlement in the New World.
What is Jamestown?
The Pilgrims landed in this modern-day state.
What is Massachusetts?
Crops like tobacco, indigo, and rice that were grown for a profit.
What are cash crops?
This was the first attempted British settlement in the New World.
What is Roanoke?
This became a lucrative cash crop, saving Jamestown, which required an intense amount of manual labor to grow and harvest.
What is tobacco?
A large feast the Pilgrims shared with Squanto and the Wampanoag tribe to show thanks for their help.
What is Thanksgiving?
In 1636, this minister was forced out of Massachusetts for challenging the connection of the Puritan church to the government and eventually sets up the Rhode Island colony.
What is Roger Williams?
What is the name of the ship the Pilgrims sailed the North America on?
What is the Mayflower?
What is one of the colonies located in the New England colonies?
Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
A document signed on the Mayflower which wrote out a new set of rules and laws which the Pilgrims agreed to live by in what would become the new colony that they were about to create.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This region of the colonies had the best climate for growing crops due to fertile soil and a warm climate?
Which New England town was the site of famous witch trials?
What is Salem, Massachusetts?
What were the major industries in New England?
What is fishing, shipbuilding, lumber, and fishing?
This period in Jamestown was when extreme winter conditions, disease, and famine combined devastated the population of Jamestown, as only 60 of nearly 500 colonists survived to see the following spring. The winter of 1609 to 1610 was called this:
What is the "Starving Time?"
This group of people set up the New Amsterdam colony.
What is the Dutch?
This was someone who agreed to work under a contract in exchange their passage to America would be paid by the person that they worked for.
What is an indentured servant?
This person required colonists in Jamestown, to work harder and more efficiently. He incentivized them into doing so, by rewarding the best workers with extra food. “He who will not work, shall not eat,” was a famous quote.
Who is John Smith?
These two people were married in an effort to create peace between the colonists and the Powhatan Native Americans.
What is John Rolfe and Pocahontas?
This was built in the modern-day city of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The French built this on what the British believed was their territory.
What is Fort Duquesne?
Name one of the Middle colonies?
New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania