A laborer who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time in exchange for passage to America.
What is indentured servant
100
Founder of Pennsylvania who hoped to create a safe haven for Quakers.
Who is William Penn
100
The name of the ship the Pilgrims took to the New World.
What is the Mayflower
100
Nickname for the Middle Colonies.
What is the Breadbasket
100
A farm crop raised to be sold for money.
What is cash crops
200
A person who owes a person or country money.
What is a debtor
200
He was banished from Massachusetts Bay Colony and created the Rhode Island Colony.
Who is Roger Williams
200
The location where the Pilgrims landed.
What is Plymouth Rock
200
Only wealthy children in the Middle Colonies attended these.
What is private school
200
The motives that people were coming to settle in the Southern Colonies.
What are profits and land
300
To pursue with harassing or oppressive treatment because of religious or political beliefs.
What is persecute
300
These two Native Americans taught the colonists at Plymouth how to grow and plant crops.
Who is Squanto & Samoset
300
The economy of the New England colonies depended heavily on this.
What is the Atlantic Ocean
300
The original name of New York
What is New Amsterdam
300
The Southern Colonies depended on this in order for their economy to be successful.
What is slave labor
400
15,000 Puritans left religious persecution in England and settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What is the Great Migration
400
Founder of the Maryland colony who looked to create a safe place for Catholics.
Who is Lord Baltimore
400
This colony was the only New England colony not founded for religious freedom but instead was created as a fishing colony.
What is the New Hampshire Colony
400
This religious group is also known as the Society of Friends.
Who are the Quakers
400
The first colonial rebellion against English control.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
500
People who didn’t want to follow Puritan rules and laws and left the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
What is a dissenter
500
He created the Georgia colony as a buffer zone between the other colonies and Spanish Florida and established a place for English debtors to get a new start.
Who is James Oglethorpe
500
Separatist who journeyed to the colonies in the 1600’s for a religious purpose.
What is a Pilgrim
500
The English took the New York and New Jersey from this European country.
Who are the Dutch
500
This law in Maryland granted religious freedom to all Christians.