People and Places
The colonists sent over to found Georgia were all debtors. What is a debtor?
people who had been put in prison for owing money
Often times plantation owners would hire somebody to watch the slaves as they worked. What were these people called?
overseers
What is the term for a written plan of government?
constitution
Which 5 (or 4) colonies belonged to the Southern Colonies?
Maryland, Virginia, Georgia, and Carolina (North Carolina and South Carolina)
Who was the Georgia Colony named after?
King George II
Plantation owners were also known by another name. What were they called?
planters
Plantation owners often paid another person to take their goods to market to sell them. What were these people who sold other people's goods called?
broker
This blue dye was discovered by a young woman in the Southern Colonies.
indigo
the Virginia Colony
The economy in the Southern Colonies was mainly based around what?
cash crops
This wealthy, English family owned land and founded the Maryland Colony.
the Calvert family
This Native American trail was used by immigrants to move to the west of the Coastal Plains.
the Great Wagon Road
When individuals depend on one another for economic resources, it is called what?
interdependence
The Carolina Colony was equally divided among 8 English leaders. What were these 8 English leaders known as?
Which crop did the Southern Colonies in the north grow?
tobacco
In Spanish Florida, a tribe of Native Americans helped runaway slaves get settled. These runaways began speaking their language, dressing, and acting like them. What were these runaways called?
Black Seminoles
This small town in Spanish Florida became the first settlement in North America for free Africans.
Fort Mose
What word refers to land that was "in back of" the area settled by Europeans and is found in the Piedmont?
backcountry
The cities that grew the most were located near what types of landforms?
Which crop did the Southern Colonies in the south grow?
rice
This former slave published an autobiography about his past life as a slave.
Olaudah Equiano
This young woman experimented with indigo plants, discovering that the plants produced a beautiful dye.
Eliza Lucas Pinckney
In 1649, the Maryland government passed this act that gave religious freedom to all Christians in the colony.
the Toleration Act
The citizens became hard to govern because they didn't follow laws they didn't like.
Label the Southern Colonies on the map.
check with Mr. Miller