Vocabulary
A plant used in making blue dye.
What is indigo?
The land was rocky making this difficult.
What is farming?
The Middle Colonies grew so many crops for making bread they got called what?
What is ¨Bread Basket¨?
A farm in the Southern Colonies only grows one type of crop.
What is plantation?
People that already lived on the land while new people were coming in were called what?
What is Native Americans?
These people were imported from Africa and forced to work.
What are slaves?
The major religion of the New England Colonies.
In what Middle Colony state was the wagon invented?
What is Pennsylvania?
Roanoke was located on the Outer Banks. We now call it what?
What is North Carolina?
People that began to settle and spread across New England were called what?
What is Colonists?
Someone hired to watch slaves as they worked.
What is an overseer?
No women could serve in this with in the New England Colonies.
What is the Puritan Government?
Grains such as wheat, barley, rye, and corn were considerd what in the Middle Colonies?
What is Cash Crops?
What crop helped Jamestown Colony make money?
What is tobacco?
People importanted from Africa to work on the farms in the Southern Colonies.
What is slaves?
The New England Colonies were formed by this group.
What is Puritans?
The Puritans settled in what colony?
What is Massachusetts?
The Middle Colonies were an interesting place to live because of the many different types of people that settled there. Also called what?
What is diversity?
An agreement made on the Mayflower between the pilgrims who would settle in Cape Cod.
What is Mayflower Compact?
People that worked for an individual for a limited amount of time then got freedom and owned his own land.
What is an indentured servant?
The Puritans, The Amish, The Catholics.
What is religious groups?
Econmic Opportunities in the New England Colonies were whaling, fishing and what?
What is shipbuiding?
The Middle Colonies consisted of what states?
What is New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania?
The Triangular Trade route included North America, Africa and what?
What is Europe?
A member of a religious society who lived in the Colonys of New England.
What is Quakers?