Vocabulary
Who was the person who owned and controlled all the land in a colony?
What is a proprietor?
What is a person who does hard physical work?
What is a laborer?
After England captured the colony of New Netherland, King Charles gave it to whom?
Who was his brother?
Who wanted a colony where all Christians could live in peace?
Who was William Penn?
What is 4?
Who is someone who is chosen to speak and act for others?
What is a representative?
What is someone who studies with a master to learn a skill or business?
What is an apprentice?
What did the proprietors of New York and New Jersey allow colonists to do?
What was to take part in government?
The city of Philadelphia was in which colony?
What is Pennsylvania?
Many families in the middle colonies had what job?
What is farmers?
What is an official agreement between nations or groups?
What is a treaty?
What is the word for a large farm that grows cash crops?
What is a plantation?
In the 1600s, what was the population of the Middle Colonies like?
What was a mix of people from different nations?
Where was the first permanent English colony?
What is Virginia?
After Virginia, how many southern colonies were formed?
What is 4?
What is the economic system in which people may start any business that they believe will succeed?
What is free enterprise?
What is a group of people with the power to make laws?
What is a legislature?
What was the economy of the southern colonies based on?
What is agriculture?
Who wanted Maryland to be a refuge for Catholics?
Who was Cecilius Calvert?
What did slaves adopt in the colonies?
What was Christianity?
What is a person who is skilled at making something by hand?
Who is an artisan?
What is the word for a safe place?
What is a refuge?
Which colonies grew rice and indigo as their main crops?
What are South Carolina and Georgia?
Most of the colonists in the Southern Colonies were _____.
What are backcountry farmers?
What was the difference between plantations and backcountry farmers?
What is farmers' children learned to read and write from their parents?