The English and Sir Walter Raleigh attempted to set up a colony here, where all of the people ended up disappearing.
What is the Lost Colony of Roanoke?
100
These colonies were the furthest north.
What are the New England colonies?
100
One leg of this 3-part trading route brought sugar and molasses from the West Indies to New England.
What is Triangular Trade?
100
After seizing the Dutch colony of New Netherland, the English renamed the colony this.
What is New York?
100
These people paid for their passage to America by agreeing to work without pay for a certain amount of time.
Who are indentured servants?
200
The first permanent settlement in North America.
What is Jamestown?
200
New York, New Jersey, Delaware and Pennsylvania made up these colonies.
What are the Middle Colonies?
200
The city of Boston is in this New England colony.
What is Massachusetts?
200
The Middle colonies were able to grow large quantities of this grain.
What is wheat?
200
This was the most important cash crop in Maryland and Virginia.
What is tobacco?
300
After defeating the Spanish Armada, England became more interested in establishing colonies here.
What is North America?
300
The sea voyage when enslaved Africans were shipped to the West Indies. The conditions were terrible.
What is the Middle Passage?
300
Separatists wanted to leave the Anglican church to set up their own churches, but these Protestants preferred to try to reform the church.
Who are the Puritans?
300
William Penn, a wealthy English Quaker, acquired a tract of land in America that became known as what colony?
What is Pennsylvania?
300
The colonies of South Carolina and Georgia made this their main cash crop, that they grew in low-lying areas along the coast.
What is rice?
400
The colony of Jamestown survived its first two years mostly because of this man, an experienced 27-year-old explorer.
Who is Captain John Smith?
400
These colonies had the best land for farming and the longest growing season.
What are the Southern Colonies?
400
These early colonists were known as Separatists, and set up a community in North America for religious reasons. They came ashore in Cape Cod, part of modern day Massachusetts.
Who are the Pilgrims?
400
By the 1760s, with a population over 24,000, this city was the largest in the American colonies.
What is Philadelphia?
400
Most enslaved Africans in the Southern Colonies lived on these, where most worked in fields and suffered great cruelty.
What is a plantation?
500
After not finding gold, the Virginia colonists found a way to make money for investors by growing this plant.
What is tobacco?
500
The economies of these colonies focused on shipbuilding, fishing, and trade.
What are the New England colonies?
500
Extra amounts of a product.
What is surplus?
500
Nearly 100,000 immigrants from this country came to America and settled in the Middle colonies.
What is Germany?
500
In 1705, the colony of Virginia created a strict set of rules that governed the behavior and punishment of enslaved Africans, and helped define the relationship between enslaved people and free people.