VOCABULARY
PEOPLE
NEW ENGLAND, MIDDLE, SOUTHERN
FOUNDERS
WHAT IS IT?
100
volunteer army
What is a militia?
100
inventor, scientist, printer; wrote Poor Richard's Almanack
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
"Breadbasket" colonies
What are the Middle Colonies?
100
proprietor of Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
100
main cash crop that grew in the swampy land of the Southern Colonies
What is rice?
200
person who learns a skill from an artisan
What is an apprentice?
200
tried on charges of sedition & expelled from Mass. Bay Colony
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
200
plantations and small farms
What are the Southern Colonies?
200
Georgia, a place where English debtors could get a new start
Who is James Oglethorpe?
200
New England colonists participated in their government this way
What is they held town meetings (to pass laws and elect leaders)
300
person who watched over slaves as they worked
What is an overseer?
300
group that believed all people were equal; settled in NJ and PA
Who are the Quakers?
300
Puritans settled here
What are the New England Colonies? (Massachusetts Bay Colony)
300
expelled from Mass. Bay Colony and founded Rhode Island
Who is Roger Williams?
300
products used to build ships
What are naval stores?
400
safe place
What is a refuge?
400
John Winthrop was the leader of this group in Mass. Bay Colony
Who were the Puritans?
400
town meetings
What are New England Colonies?
400
founded Maryland as a refuge for Catholics
Who is Lord Baltimore (Calverts)
400
the reason Puritans taught reading
What is everyone should be able to read the Bible?
500
person who buys and sells goods for another person
What is a broker?
500
He led the Wampanoag in King Philip's War
Who is Metacomet?
500
England takes over New Netherland
What is Middle Colonies (New York)
500
8 men who founded the Carolinas
Who are the Lords Proprietors?
500
the movement that changed the way many people practiced their religion
What is the Great Awakening?