Vocabulary
A place people can go to be safe
refuge
Were there a lot of schools in the New England colonies?
Yes
When the English took over the settlement of New Amsterdam, they renamed it...
New York
What major cash crops were grown in the Southern Colonies?
Tobacco
Rice
Cotton
The journey of Africans being brought to the Americas to become slaves was called the...
Middle Passage
Person who works for someone without pay to settle a debt
indentured servant
The New England colonies were in the...
A. North
B. South
C. West
North
People in the Middle Colonies traded...
fur
Were there lots of schools in the Southern Colonies?
No
Slavery was very popular in the _______ Colonies
Southern
large farm that makes one product
plantation
What group of colonists DID NOT tolerate people having other religions?
Puritans
What two main crops were grown in the Middle Colonies? (think grains)
wheat and corn
Were there lots of cities in the Southern Colonies?
No
People from Africa were brought to the Americas as...
slaves
letting others have different beliefs
tolerance
Most colonists worked at trades or on ________.
farms
What group of people founded Pennsylvania (hint: William Penn was one of these)?
Quakers
While this existed everywhere, _________ was very popular in the South
Slavery
Name two ways in which conditions on slave ships were bad
1. Crowded
2. Little food/water
3. Chained to walls
4. Sometimes tortured
group of people who decide if a person on trial is guilty
jury
Whale oil
Name two of the Middle Colonies
New York
New Jersey
Delaware
Pennsylvania
Which state was founded as a refuge for English prisoners?
Georgia
What happened to the Native Americans as colonists settled west?
Lost their land and many died of disease