Geography & Economy
Theirs had the warmest climate, fertile soil, and longest growing season.
Who was the Southern Colonies.
The Pilgrims created this as their new government document.
The Mayflower Compact
What two religious groups relocated to colonial Massachusetts from England?
The Pilgrims and the Puritans.
Which Native Group did the Pilgrims share the first Thanksgiving with?
The Wampanoag People.
Name two states that are part of the Southern Colonies.
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, or Georgia.
Their economy was based on fishing and lumber.
Who was the New England Colonies
Who ran the Royal Governments of the Middle Colonies?
Who was the King of England.
Why did the Pilgrims travel to the "New World?"
What is to search for religious freedom and separate themselves from the Church of England.
The Lenape people follow this, meaning a child’s lineage is traced through the mother.
What is a matrilineal clan system.
Henry Hudson was connected to this Middle Colony.
What is New York.
Because they grew a lot of wheat, the Middle Colonies were sometimes called this:
What was, the Breadbasket of British North America.
How were proprietary governments different from royal governments?
Leaders were selected by members of the colony (not by the King).
This religious group was against violence of any kind, making them unwilling to fight in wars.
Who were the Quakers.
The movie Pocahontas involved this group of Native people.
Who are the Powhatan People.
Indentured servants usually worked this many years before gaining their freedom dues?
What is typically seven years.
This colonial region traded maple syrup for tools and wheat.
Who is New England.
These two things were included in many of the Middle Colonies’ constitutions.
What were religious freedom and no taxation without representation.
The founding of this colonial region was not based in religion, rather it was based in gaining land and wealth.
What are the Southern Colonies.
Squanto was a member of this tribe.
What is the Patuxet Tribe.
William Penn founded this colony.
What is Pennsylvania.
The colony name and the region that grew the first tobacco in North America.
What is Virginia in the Southern Colonies.
In Jamestown, the government created was called this.
What is the House of Burgesses.
These two beliefs of Roger Williams can be found in our own Constitution.
What is the Freedom of Religion and the Separation of Church and State.
This is approximately how many Native people were taken into slavery by the European settlers and colonial Americans over time.
What was approximately 2.5 to 5 million Native people were taken into slavery during exploration, colonization, and settlement.
This was the difference between North and South Carolina prior to splitting up the colony.
What is, the North had small farms growing tobacco, and the South had very large plantations with large enslaved populations.