New England Colonies
What group of English Protestants founded Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630 seeking religious freedom?
Who are the Puritans?
What nickname was given to the Middle Colonies because they grew and exported massive quantities of staple grains like wheat, rye, and barley?
What are the "Breadbasket Colonies"?
Founded in 1607, what was the first permanent English settlement in North America?
What is Jamestown?
What term describes crops grown primarily to sell for profit on the market rather than for personal use?
What is a cash crop?
What lost English colony was founded on the coast of North Carolina, only for its settlers to vanish by 1590?
What is Roanoke?
Because of rocky soil and long winters, what type of farming—growing only enough food for one's household—did New Englanders practice?
What is subsistence farming?
Founded by William Penn in 1681 as a "holy experiment," which religious group believed in peace, equality, and nonviolence?
Who are the Quakers?
What type of large agricultural estate dominated the Southern economy, growing cash crops on a large scale?
What is a plantation?
Introduced to Virginia by John Rolfe, which valuable cash crop saved the Jamestown colony's economy?
What is tobacco?
Signed by Plymouth settlers in 1620, what agreement created a self-governing community bound by fair laws?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What form of local democratic governance allowed male landowners in New England to vote on laws and elect officials?
What is a town meeting?
Before being taken over by the English in 1664 and renamed New York, what was the original name of this Dutch colony?
What is New Netherland?
Lord Baltimore established Maryland in 1634 as a safe haven for members of which religious group facing discrimination in England?
Who are Catholics?
In addition to rice, what plant was grown in the swampy lowlands of South Carolina and Georgia to produce a valuable blue dye?
What is indigo?
Which English leader saved Jamestown during its first year by declaring, "He that will not work shall not eat"?
Who is Captain John Smith?
Founded by Thomas Hooker in 1639, which document created government based on the consent of the governed and is considered the first written constitution in America?
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Name the two major navigable rivers that made it easy for Middle Colony farmers to transport grain directly to coastal trade ports.
What are the Hudson and Delaware Rivers?
Founded by James Oglethorpe in 1732, Georgia was created as a refuge for which group of people and as a defense buffer against Spanish Florida?
Who are debtors (or the poor)?
Because of dense, vast forests, what major manufacturing industry developed along the coast of New England?
What is shipbuilding?
What English-speaking Native American taught Plymouth settlers how to plant corn, catch fish, and adapt to the New England climate?
Who is Squanto?
Name the two religious dissenters who were banished or forced out of Massachusetts for challenging Puritan authority, one of whom founded Rhode Island.
Who are Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
Which Middle Colony, originally settled by Swedes, became its own colony in 1704 and later became the first state to ratify the U.S. Constitution?
What is Delaware?
Formed in Virginia in 1619, what was the name of the first representative assembly in the American colonies?
What is the House of Burgesses?
What term refers to workers who agreed to labor for several years without pay in exchange for free passage across the Atlantic Ocean to America?
What are indentured servants?
What term refers to the brutal, forced ocean voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that brought millions of enslaved Africans to the Americas?
What is the Middle Passage?