Middle Colonies
The Bostonian who ran away to Philadelphia, became rich publishing an almanac, and loved to tinker and explore new ideas such as electricity.
Who is Ben Franklin?
The crop that became "gold" for Virginians.
What is tobacco?
The system, more common in the southern colonies than the norhtern, in which people were forced to work for free on plantations and were considered the property of the plantation owners.
What is slavery?
The type of document that spelled out the rules about running a colony, often granted by the king of England and allowing the members of a colongy to govern themselves and sometimes got taken away when England made a colony a royal colony.
What is a charter?
The oldest mountain range in the US, which made a spine along the western edge of the British colonies.
What is the Appalachian range?
Nickenames of the colorful leaders who goverened the New Netherland and New Sweden colonies before they were taken over by the English.
Who were Silvernails & Big Tub?
The type of large farm found along rivers in Virgnia that was like a self-contained village, grew cash crops, and made huge profits because of the free labor of enslaved Africans.
What is a plantation?
One of the two main crops grown in the South Carolina colony, which was settled by many planters from the crowded English colonies in the Caribbean.
What is rice/ indigo?
The three-sided trade route across the Atlantic that included Europe, Africa and the Americas trading manufactured goods, enslaved Africans, and raw materials.
What is Triangular Trade?
A nickname for the settlers who left the comfort of the established colonies to carve a trail over the Appalachian Mountains.
Who are the trailblazers?
Rich Englishman who defied his father to become a member of the Society of Friends, AKA Quakers, and founded the Pennsylvania colony where all religions were equal.
Who is William Penn?
The type of person who had the most power in 18th century Virginia.
What are wealthy land owners?
The colony founded by Catholic Englishman George Calvert, which passed the Toleration Act of 1649 to provide religious freedom for Catholics and Protestants.
What is Maryland?
The sweet cash crop grown in the British caribbean colonies like Barbados, which made them the wealthiest English American colonies in the 17th century and also some of the largest importers of enslaved workers from Africa.
What is sugar? (or molasses)
The most famous American frontiersman who found a gap through the Appalachian Mountains and created a road there; his grandfather was an English Quaker who immigrated to Pennsylvania.
Who is Daniel Boone?
The material that was popular in Europe and that the Dutch West India company hoped would make them rich in America.
What was fur (beaver, bear, fox, etc.)?
The religion of most Virginians in the 1700s, making them more loyal to the English king than their Northern Puritan counterparts.
What is Anglican? (or Church of England)
The busiest port in the southern colonies, named after the English king, where some plantation owners spent most of their time going to fancy parties, only occasionally visiting their plantations.
Where is Charlestown?
The southern colony founded by James Oglethorpe to try to make a new, ideal home for English people who would otherwise be stuck in debtors' prisons with no way to work to pay off their debts (though it ended up becoming another royal colony anyway).
What is Georgia?
The famous US President who was proud that his grandfather had been a friend of Daniel Boone,
Who is Abraham Lincoln?
Two of the diverse nationalities of settlers who came to New York and New Jersey, where the charter provided for representative government and freedom of religion.
What are Finnish, German, Swedish, English?
The new capitol of Virginia (after Jamestown was burned), which people visited from their plantations during Public Times to do business, make laws, conduct court cases, visit and shop; many future 'founding fathers' debated there.
What is Williamsburg?
The southern colony that attracted a raucous and rebellious population, including free-spirited farmers, religious dissenters, and a smattering of pirates like Blackbeard who used it as a home base.
What is North Carolina?
One of two groups who gave English settlers in Georgia a hard time with border fights or capturing ships.
Who are the Spaniards/ or pirates?
The road created through a gap in the Appalachian Mountains that let settlers migrate to the Kentucky grasslands.
What is the Wildernesss Road?