New England
The Pilgrims signed this agreement before leaving their ship, establishing representative-government
What is the Mayflower Compact
The Nickname for the Middle Colonies
What is 'The Breadbasket'
This crop made Jamestown financially successful.
What is tobacco
This Native American civilization built its capital at Tenochtitlan, today’s Mexico City.
What is the Aztec Empire?
This word means a contract granted to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
The primary industry of the New England economy
What is Shipbuilding
This boundary, mapped by Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon, separated Pennsylvania and Maryland.
What is the Mason-Dixon line?
The southern economy was dominated by these large agricultural enterprises.
What are plantations
This crop was the main food source for most Native Americans and could only be found in north and South America
What is Corn
This three-part trade system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas, with enslaved Africans forced across the Middle Passage.
What was the Triangular Trade?
The primary Christian group in New England
Who are the Puritans/Pilgrims
The Quakers established this colony as a haven for religious freedom
What is Pennsylvania
This cash crop, a blue flowering plant used to dye cloth, was widely grown in South Carolina.
What is indigo?
This South American empire stretched more than 3,000 miles along the Andes. It was based around modern day Peru.
What is the Inca Empire
This intellectual movement emphasized science, reason, and equality, influencing American independence.
What was the Enlightenment?
This movement brought more than 15,000 Puritans to Boston, Massachusetts during the 1630s.
What is the great Migration
The name of the Dutch-controlled regions of North America.
What is New Amsterdam
This legislative body, established in 1619, was the first representative government in America.
What is the House of Burgesses?
In 1519 ____ was the most effective weapon the Spanish used when destroying the Aztec empire, killing more than half of all native Americans
What is Smallpox
This 1730s–1740s religious revival led to new churches and greater freedom of worship in the colonies.
What was the First Great Awakening?
The 4 New England Colonies are ___
What is Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut
This colony promised its citizens trial by Jury
What is New Jersey
Georgia was originally founded as a colony for this group of people.
Who were debtors/poor people?
This Central American civilization built temples and developed a theocratic government, but mysteriously declined before the arrival of the Europeans
What is the Maya
This economic policy said colonies existed to benefit the “mother country.”
What is mercantilism?