New England
What do you call a person who takes a trip for religious reasons?
What is a Pilgrim?
To what religious group did William Penn belong?
What are Quakers?
What was the first representative government in the colonies?
What is the House of Burgesses?
This man was credited with the discovery of the "New World" in 1492
Who is Christopher Columbus?
These communities in the southern colonies were in the hills with thick forests. There were small farms and very few slaves. (Tidewater/or Backcountry?)
What is backcountry?
What food product was one of the New England colonies largest export?
What is fish?
This food product was the largest export of the Middle Colonies
What is grain?
This is the name for a huge farm in the Southern Colonies that often had several enslaved persons tending to cash crops.
What is a plantation?
Because it was believed that they could better survive the work that the Spanish were forcing Natives to do, these people replaced them as slaves
Who are Africans?
Whay was Jamestown so far inland rather than on the coast?
To hide from the Spanish, who sailed the larger bodies of water.
Puritans believed everyone should be able to read because they wanted people to study what famous book?
What is the Bible?
Quakers believed everyone was ______ in God's eyes.
What is equal?
What area in the Southern Colonies was characterized by slave labor, flat and fertile land, and water access?
(Tidewater or Backcountry)
What is Tidewater?
What group of people were trained for European life in Spanish missions in order to make it easier to govern them?
Who are Native Americans?
What were the conditions like on a slave ship?
What is overcrowded, nasty, terrible?
This war started because more and more English settlers came to New England and took all of the land
What is King Phillips War?
A colony given to someone in the ruling monarch's family is called what?
What is a royal colony?
This system expanded slavery by encouraging planters to purchase more slaves in order to gain more land.
What is the headright system?
What is Mr. Pace's favorite color?
What is green?
Social status, in colonial society, depended entirely on what factors?
What are family background and wealth?
Thomas Hooker believed there should be strict limits on govt. So he left Massachusetts and started a representative government in...?
(Fundamental orders of...?)
What is Hartford/Connecticut?
An effort to attract people of different ethnicities set this colony apart from all the others
What is Pennsylvania?
What group was the Maryland Act of Toleration intended to protect?
Who are Catholics?
List at least 2 reasons that Hernan Cortez was able to conquer the Aztecs with only a handful of soldiers (Only question ever to be exempt from answering like a question)
1. They had better and more advanced weapons
2. The Aztecs believed they were gods and didn't attack
3. Diseases like smallpox killed many of the Natives
Describe the 3 legs of the triangular trade. (what from Europe to Africa? from Africa across the ______passage to Americas? and what from the Americas to Europe?
1. Manufactured goods to Africa
2. Slaves across the Middle Passage to Americas
3. Cash crops and raw materials from Americas to Europe.