Jamestown & Early Hardships
Founded in 1607 in present-day Virginia, this settlement became the first permanent English colony in North America.
What is Jamestown?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire made up this northern region of the English colonies.
What is New England?
Farms here grew so much wheat, ground into flour and shipped from New York and Philadelphia, that the region earned this food nickname.
What are the breadbasket colonies?
Tobacco, rice, and indigo were all examples of this kind of crop, grown mainly to be sold rather than used by the farmer's own family.
What is a cash crop?
This word names how people in a place make a living, including what they grow, make, sell, and trade.
What is an economy?
This legal document from the king gave the Virginia Company permission to start a colony and claim its land.
What is a charter?
A short growing season and this kind of soil made farming hard in New England.
What is rocky soil?
Having many different kinds of people, languages, and beliefs living together in one place is called this, and the Middle Colonies had the most of it.
What is diversity?
Along Southern rivers, planters ran these very large farms that grew one or two cash crops for sale using a large labor force.
What are plantations?
In this kind of government, voters choose people to make laws for them.
What is representative government?
In 1590, John White returned to this island and found it empty, with only the word CROATOAN carved on a post.
What is Roanoke (Island)?
Boston, Salem, and Newport were New England's natural examples of these, safe places along the coast where ships could dock.
What are harbors?
Pennsylvania drew Quakers, Catholics, Lutherans, and Jews by practicing this, letting people worship in their own way without being punished.
What is religious tolerance?
Home to Jamestown and the House of Burgesses, this was the first of the Southern Colonies.
What is Virginia?
In 1620, 41 men aboard the Mayflower signed this short agreement promising to make fair laws and obey them.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Jamestown struggled to make money until colonists began growing this crop and selling it in England, where it was in high demand.
What is tobacco?
Your Regional Comparison Chart says most New England colonists were English members of this religious group, who lived in tight-knit communities.
Who are the Puritans?
This Quaker founded Pennsylvania in 1681, welcomed groups who were persecuted elsewhere, and insisted that colonists treat Native Americans fairly.
Who is William Penn?
Most Southern plantations depended on this system, in which people were held as property, were forced to work without pay, and had no legal rights.
Most Southern plantations depended on this system, in which people were held as property, were forced to work without pay, and had no legal rights.
In July 1619, elected men met in the Jamestown church in what was the first representative assembly in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
In 1620, the Pilgrims sailed on the Mayflower and founded this colony in present-day Massachusetts.
What is Plymouth?
In New England villages, colonists gathered at these meetings to discuss and vote on local issues such as roads, schools, and taxes.
What are town meetings?
Before England took it over in 1664 and renamed it New York, the Dutch called their colony here by this name.
What is New Amsterdam?
These workers agreed to work for a set number of years, often four to seven, to pay for their trip to America, and they became free when the contract ended.
Who are indentured servants?
Over time, Virginia limited the vote for the House of Burgesses to this group, leaving out women, enslaved people, Native Americans, and men without land.
Who are white men who owned land?