13 Colonies
What is a cash crop?
What is crops grown to be sold for cash
What is the name of the ocean between The New World (Colonies ) and Europe?
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
What were the colonies and France fighting over during the French and Indian War?
Land in the Ohio River Valley
What is a settlement on a distant land ruled by a mother country called?
What is a colony
Why did the pilgrims come to the New World?
What is to find religious freedom
This colony was established in 1607.
What is Jamestown Virginia?
What was the name of the celebration between the Wampanoags and the Pilgrims in Plymouth?
Thanksgiving
What kind of soil did the Southern Colonies have?
What is fertile soil ?
What is growing enough food to feed yourself and your family, but not enough to make a profit?
What is subsistence farming?
Why was Jamestown established ?
What is economic reasons?
This was the First Representative Assembly in the Colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses
The agreement among the Pilgrims to follow the laws and the government of the colony.
The Mayflower Compact
What was England's primary reason for wanting to colonize America?
TRADE to make money - Mercantilism
What are the names of the 3 countries that wanted to colonize the NEW WORLD?
Spain, England and France
Why did the French have more allies in the New World than the English.
they were interested in trading with Native Americans rather than taking their land
Which group of colonies sold wheat and was known as the breadbasket colonies?
The Middle Colonies
Which group of colonies would catch whales for their meat, oil and bones?
New England
Which country established a FUR TRADE with Native American Indians in the New World in the Ohio River Valley?
What is France
Which colonial region does North Carolina belong to?
What are the Southern Colonies ?
Where is the Ohio River Valley located?
between the Mississippi River and Appalachian Mountains
What is the vocabulary word for people who spread religion?
Who are missionaries
What is the name of the crop that saved Jamestown?
What is tobacco?
Why was Rhode Island founded?
for religious freedom
Which colonial region is known as the "Bread Basket" Colonies?
What is the Middle Colonies or the Mid-Atlantic Colonies
What crop helped Jamestown succeed?
What is tobacco?