Vocabulary
What is a person that owns all the land in a colony?
What is a Properietor?
What agreement did the Pilgrims sign to establish self-government in Plymouth?
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What group of people came to America to escape religious persecution and settled in Massachusetts?
Who are the Puritans?
Which region of the 13 colonies had fertile soil, perfect for growing wheat and corn, earning the nickname "The Breadbasket Colonies"?
What are the Middle Colonies?
What was the INITAL reason European explorers first sailed to America?
What is to find new trade routes to Asia?
When people in a community or society make their own rules and decisions about how to live?
What it is Self Government?
Which document was the first written constitution in the colonies, created in Connecticut?
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
What term refers to large farms in the Southern colonies that grew cash crops like tobacco?
What are plantations?
What are the 3 regions of the 13 Colonies?
What is New England, Middle, and Southern Colonies?
Why did the French colonize?
What is Fur Trading?
A type of plant that farmers grow to sell and make money?
What is a cash crop?
The Virginia Company allowed settlers to have some say in their government by forming this type of government.
What is self-government?
What cash crop helped Jamestown become successful?
What is tobacco?
What region of the colonies had a warm climate and large plantations that grew cash crops
What is the Southern Colonies?
Why did the Spanish Colonize?
What is to find new land and establish catholic missions (religion purposes)
What is A religious momevent that took place from 1730s to 1740s
What is The Great Awakening?
What was the first representative government in the American colonies?
What is the House of Burgesses?
This colony was founded by Roger Williams in 1636 after he was banished from Massachusetts for his religious beliefs. It was known for its commitment to religious freedom.
What is Rhode Island?
The New England colonies had rocky soil and harsh winters. What was one job people did there instead of farming?
What is fishing or shipbuilding?
This group of people, seeking religious freedom, founded the Plymouth Colony in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This was the journey enslaved Africans took across the Atlantic to the American colonies.
What is the Middle Passage?
The government of Pennsylvania was established by this Quaker leader, known for allowing religious freedom.
Who is William Penn?
Who helped the Pilgrims survive in Plymouth by teaching them how to grow food?
Who is Squanto?
Which body of water did the Jamestown settlers use for trade and transportation?
What is the Chesapeake Bay?
This 1676 rebellion in Virginia, led by a farmer, was against the colonial government over Native American policy and land disputes.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?