Colonies
European country that had control of the 13 colonies.
Who is England?
The reason the settlers picked that location for Jamestown.
What is for protection from the Spanish?
Group of settlers that had the best relationship with Native Americans.
Who are the French?
The name of the trade routes from England, West Africa, the West Indies, and the colonies.
What is the Triangular Trade?
What are the southern colonies?
Two reasons that half of the Jamestown settlers did not survive into their first spring.
Two ways that early setlers adapted to their environment.
What are by using animal hides/fur to provide warmth, building houses to protect them, growing crops that work in that climate, hunting, and/or fishing?
Columbus was looking for this on his first expedition.
What is a western route to the East Indies?
What is for religious freedom?
DAILY DOUBLE! Cash crop that transformed Jamestown into a profitable settlement.
What is tobacco?
What are the three reasons for Spain's continued exploration to the Americas?
What are Glory, God, and Gold?
Document that the pilgrims used to establish an agreement for making and following laws.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Maryland was set up as a colony for this religious group to practice freely.
Who are Catholics?
The English waited almost 20 years before establishing another colony because of the failure of this first colony.
What is Roanoke?
First group of Europeans to arrive to the Americas.
Who are the vikings?
An economic benefit of the Columbian exchange.
What is the ability to sell new agricultural products?
Colonies that welcome people with different religious beliefs, unlike other earlier colonies.
What are the middle colonies?
Helped establish good relationships between the Jamestown settlers and the Powhatan tribe.
Who is Pocahontas?
First representative body in the colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
Reason countries used their colonies for mercantilism.
What is to use their raw materials?