The Middle Colonies
The Middle Colonies
The Southern Colonies
The Southern Colonies
100
a crop sold for money at a market
What is a cash crop?
100
This individual founded Pennsylvania and named it after himself
Who was William Penn?
100
This means to take something away
A) prohibit
B) transfer
C) deprive
D) inherit
What is deprive?
100
This is the belief that one race is superior to another
What is racism?
200
a colony under direct control of the English crown
What is a royal colony?
200
This is the main reason why many Europeans settled in the middle colonies
What are economic opportunities?
200
This plant is used to make blue dye
What is the indigo plant
200
This mountain range bordered the southern colonies
A) Himalayas
B) Pikes Peak
C) Appalachian Mountains
D) Rocky Mountains
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
300
This colony was formed when New York decided that their colony was too large to easily govern
What is New Jersey?
300
the type of colony that is given by the king in exchange for a yearly payment.
What is a Proprietary Colony?
300
After the death of his father, this man founded the colony of Maryland
A) Lord Buckingham
B) Lord Maryland
C) King Baltimore
D) Lord Baltimore
Who was Lord Baltimore?
300
This group of people worked fields of rice, indigo, cotton, and tobacco during the early days of colonization
A) indentured servants
B) debtors
C) slaves
Who were slaves?
400
What group of settlers left their homeland to find religious freedom
A) The Dutch
B) The English
C) The Germans
D) The Scotch-Irish
Who were the Germans?
400
This group of people wanted all individuals whether they were men, women, noble, or commoners to be treated equally
Who were Quackers?
400
A 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians
What is the Act of Toleration?
400
This made Maryland an attractive location for the early settlers
A) a bay full of fish, crab, and oysters
B) it was plentiful and abundant
C) the land was easier to build on
D) all of the above
What is all of the above?
500
these colonies made up the middle colonies
What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Deleware?
500
this was the term used for someone who voluntarily chooses to work without a salary to pay for their immigration to the colonies.
What is an Indentured servant?
500
Established as a safe place for those who owed money, this southernmost state made up the final piece of what is known as the southern colonies
A) South Carolina
B) Virginia
C) Maryland
D) Georgia
What is Georgia?
500
the Reason Lord Baltimore established Maryland
A) Free Land
B) Religious Freedom
C) Government jobs
D) a settlement for Wealthy people
What is Religious Freedom?