Transatlantic Slave Trade
True or False: The Middle Passage is from Africa across the Mediterranean Sea to Europe.
False
Major cash crop that led to financial stability for Jamestown.
Tobacco
The Pilgrims, Puritans, and Quakers all left England due to religious _________?
Persecution (mistreatment)
These were the first buildings built in the New England region.
Churches
What was the first successful English settlement in North America?
Jamestown
What current U.S. state were the first captive Africans brought to?
Virginia
True or False: Jamestown struggled at first due to laziness of colonists, bad location in a marsh, and disease.
True
Event in which mostly women, and some men, were accused of witchcraft in colonial Massachusetts.
Salem Witch Trials
Due to New Englands rocky soil they depended on what instead of farming?
Fishing
What do the stripes on the American flag represent?
The 13 original colonies.
Why did the transatlantic slave trade start?
Need for cheap labor on plantations in the Americas, desire for large profit from cash crops
What word was written on the post when John White came back to Roanoke Island and found no one?
Croatoan
This religious group settled the Pennsylvania colony and were known for being peaceful and wanting to establish religious freedom.
Quakers
There is high value placed on education in New England. What was the first college established in the region?
Harvard
This is the name of the forced journey of millions of captive Africans across the Atlantic ocean to the Americas.
Middle Passage
Leader of Roanoke=
Leader of Jamestown=
Man who introduced tobacco=
John White, John Smith, John Rolfe
What state were both the Pilgrims and Puritans located in?
Massachusetts
These two religious groups were located in the New England region.
Pilgrims and Puritans.
What year did the Titanic sink?
1912