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Early Colonization
Early Colonies
The 13 Original Colonies
Trade
Potpourri
100
Why did colonists in the New World settle near water?
Fresh drinking water, Fishing, Transportation, Irrigation for crops, Trade
100
The name of the colony where the settlement of Jamestown would be found in?
What is Virginia?
100
Identify the 4 New England Colonies
What are Connecticut, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island
100
Trade between the colonies, England and Africa that made England wealthy is known as this
What is Triangular Trade
100
What was the name given to the 2nd leg of the Triangle Trade which brought slaves from Africa to North America?
What is the Middle Passage?
200
The country that colonized the present day area of Albany, NY?
What is New Netherlands/Dutch
200
The name of North America's first representative assembly?
What is the House of Burgesses?
200
Identify the 4 Middle Colonies
What are New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania
200
Identify 2 items that were sent from the colonies to England
What are lumber, cotton, iron,tobacco, rice and indigo?
200
Identify 3 cash crops produced by the Southern Colonies.
What are tobacco, rice, indigo and cotton?
300
This country colonized the area of present day Florida.
What is Spain?
300
The primary reason that the Pilgrims travel to the New World?
What is Religious Freedom?
300
Identify the 5 Southern Colonies
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia and Maryland
300
What was traded between Africa and the colonies?
What are slaves?
300
Identify 2 reasons that New England was not a good place for farming
New England had a shorter growing season and rocky soil.
400
Identify the 2 countries relied on the fur trade as a main source of economic growth in the New World?
What are France and New Netherlands?
400
What document guaranteed the Pilgrims the right to create their own laws for the good of the colony?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
400
Why were the Middle Colonies known as the "breadbasket" colonies?
They produced a lot of oats, grain and wheat.
400
Economic system where colonies serve to financially benefit the mother country
What is mercantilism?
400

What was the first large slave revolt in the colonies?

What is the Stono Rebellion (1739)

500
The name given to the transfer of plants, animals and diseases between the Americas, Europe, Africa and Asia?
What is the Columbian Exchange?
500
What's the name of the ship that the Pilgrims sailed on?
What is the Mayflower?
500
Who founded the Pennsylvania colony?
Who is William Penn/Quakers?
500
Why did the Southern colonies have a greater number of slaves then the other colonies?
Slaves were used as labor on the plantations that were found in the South.
500

How was the New England Confederation important?

What is a united federation helped withstand King Philip's War?