Southern Colonies
This word was carved on a tree at the colony of Roanoke, indicating the settlers had left to live with the Natives
What is Croatoan or CRO
The original Dutch name for the city of New York
Event in the town of Salem where three sick girls accused others of witchcraft
What was the Salem Witch Trials?
The exchange of goods, ideas, and disease between the Americas and Europe
What is the Columbian Exchange?
Type of crop grown for the express purpose of making money
What is a cash crop?
First permanent colony in the New World
What is Jamestown?
Founder of the colony of Pennsylvannia
Who is William Penn?
The reason for many English colonists leaving for the New England colonies.
What is religious persecution/freedom of religion?
Term used to describe the trade between New World, Africa, and Old World?
What is the Triangular Trade?
Economic theory that said colonies were a source of raw materials for the Mother Country
What is Mercantilism?
John Smith led the Jamestown colony through this period of tough winter known as the _________
What is the starving times?
Nickname for the Middle Colonies
What are the breadbasket colonies?
What is King Philip's War?
The longest leg of the Triangular Trade. It took slaves from Africa to the New World
What is the Middle Passage
English farmer famous for developing a strain of Tobacco and marrying Pocahontas
Who is John Rolfe?
Chief of the Native Americans that helped Jamestown
Who is Chief Powhatan?
Religious group that believed in non-violence. They respected the Natives and were tolerant of other religions
Who are the Quakers?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This person wrote a speech encouraging his fellow puritans to be a "City on a Hill"
Who was John Winthrop?
This country was friendly with the Native Americans and colonized America to trade furs
What is France?
A group of Elected Assembly of Representatives in Virginia. They made common laws and decisions for the colonists
What is the House of Burgesses?
A kind of organization where investors pool their money together to send expeditions to the New World
Salem Minister who broke ties with the Puritan church and was exiled. Eventually founded the colony of Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?
These people were at the top of society in New Spain. They held jobs in government and church and were born in Spain
Who are the Peninsulares?
Term used to describe people who work for another to pay off a debt of some kind