Geographic & Regions
Clue: This region had rocky soil, long winters, and relied on fishing and shipbuilding.
New England Colonies
He led Jamestown through early hardship and helped it survive. (Took leadership- Famously said, "Those that shall not work, shall not eat.")
Captain John Smith
Clue: The cash crop that made Jamestown profitable.
Tobacco
The 1620 document that first created self-government and established majority rule.
Mayflower Compact
Massachusetts — region and main reason?
New England; religious
Clue: Name two colonies in the Middle (Mid‑Atlantic) region.
New York and Pennsylvania (also acceptable: New Jersey, Delaware)
Clue: The 1620 document the Pilgrims signed to establish self‑government by majority rule.
The Mayflower Compact
Clue: Name two cash crops grown in the Southern colonies.
Any two: tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar
Clue: The first representative legislature in the colonies, located in Virginia.
Virginia House of Burgesses
Georgia — region and main reason?
Southern; social/economic (debtors' colony, later plantations)
Clue: This geographic feature made ports like Boston and New York ideal for trade.
Answer: Natural harbors (deep‑water harbors)
This colony was founded by William Penn as a haven for Quakers
Pennsylvania
Clue: Role of the Transatlantic Slave Trade in the Southern economy.
It supplied enslaved labor for plantations, increasing production and profits.
Clue: The early Connecticut laws considered one of the first colonial constitutions.
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
New York — region and main reason?
Middle; economic (trade/port)
Clue: This region was nicknamed the "Bread Basket" for its large grain farms.
The Middle Colonies
Clue: Name a leader who left Massachusetts and helped found Rhode Island.
Roger Williams (Anne Hutchinson also associated with leaving Massachusetts)
Clue: Name the three parts of the Triangular Trade or give one example of goods moved.
Trade among Europe, Africa, and the Americas; example: enslaved people from Africa to the Americas (or sugar/molasses/tobacco to Europe)
The 18th-century religious movement where preachers like Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield encouraged personal faith and the idea that "all people are created equal in God's eyes."
The Great Awakening
Maryland — region and main reason?
Southern; religious (Catholic haven) and economic (tobacco)
Clue: Why were many Southern plantations built along rivers and waterways?
Rivers allowed easy transport of bulky cash crops to ports and access for ships.
Clue: Who founded Georgia as a colony for debtors and convicts?
James Oglethorpe
Clue: Why was the Middle Colonies' climate ideal for "bread" crops? Give two grains grown there.
Fertile soil and moderate growing season; examples: wheat and barley (also oats, rye)
Clue: Name two English documents or ideas that limited royal power and influenced colonial government.
Magna Carta and English Bill of Rights
Virginia — region and main reason?
Southern; economic (tobacco)