Southern Colonies
A crop grown mainly to sell for money, not to feed the farmer's own family, is called this.
What is a cash crop
Before leaving the ship in 1620, 41 Pilgrim men signed this agreement, promising to make fair laws and obey them.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Middle Colony farms grew so much wheat, shipped as flour from New York and Philadelphia, that the region got this nickname.
What are the breadbasket colonies?
The Pilgrims sailed to America in 1620 aboard this ship.
What is the Mayflower?
With thick forests for lumber and good harbors, New England colonists became known for building these.
What are ships?
Under this system, people were held as property, forced to work without pay, and given no legal rights. Most Southern plantations depended on it.
What is enslaved labor?
In New England villages, people gathered at these to talk about and vote on local issues like roads, schools, and taxes.
What are town meetings?
William Penn belonged to this religious group, and he made Pennsylvania a safe home for its members.
Who are the Quakers?
Of Roanoke, Jamestown, and Plymouth, this settlement was started first.
What is Roanoke?
Many New Englanders made a living by catching these in the Atlantic Ocean.
What are fish?
Southern plantations were usually built along these, so crops could be loaded onto boats and shipped away.
What are rivers?
By signing the Mayflower Compact, the Pilgrims gave this: their agreement to follow the rules the group would make.
What is consent?
Catholics, Lutherans, and Jews moved to Pennsylvania because it practiced this: letting people worship their own way without being punished.
What is religious tolerance?
Plymouth Colony was located in this present-day New England state.
What is Massachusetts?
Cold, snowy winters and a short growing season describe New England's this: the usual weather of a place over a long time.
What is climate?
Southern planters grew tobacco and rice, plus this crop, which was used to make blue dye.
What is indigo?
The elected men who served in Virginia's first lawmaking assembly were called these.
Who are burgesses
Before England took over in 1664, this European country controlled New Amsterdam.
What is the Netherlands?
This company got a charter from the king and sent colonists to build Jamestown.
What is the Virginia Company?
A short growing season plus this kind of soil made farming difficult in New England.
What is rocky soil?
A worker who agreed to work four to seven years to pay for the trip to America, and then went free, was called this.
Who is an indentured servant?
The House of Burgesses first met in this year, just one year before the Mayflower arrived.
What is 1619?
William Penn founded this Middle Colony in 1681, and Philadelphia became its main city.
What is Pennsylvania?
This man led the Roanoke colonists, sailed back to England for supplies, and returned in 1590 to find the colony empty.
Who is John White?
On the Regional Comparison Chart, the Middle Colonies list Quakers and the South lists Anglicans. New England lists this religious group.
Who are the Puritans?