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Vocabulary
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The Middle Colonies
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Southern Colonies
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This is the vocabulary word for people who refuse to use force or fight in war:
What are pacifists
100
These were representatives of Jamestown that made laws for the colony:
What are burgesses
100
This company offered large estates in the New World to increase the number of settlers in the Middle Colonies:
What is the Dutch West India Company
100
These two Frenchmen explored the Mississippi River:
Who are Louis Joliet and Jacques Marquette
100
This was the nickname of Sir George Calvert:
What is Lord Baltimore
200
This is the vocabulary word for a group of people that share a common culture:
What is ethnic
200
This was the first permanent English settlement in North America:
What is Jamestown
200
This is the name of of a colony where an owner owned all the land and controlled the government:
What is a proprietary colony
200
This group of people had good relations with the Native Americans of the New World:
Who are the French
200
This was the name of the young planter in West Virginia who opposed the colonial government and led attacks against Native American villages:
Who is Nathaniel Bacon
300
This is the vocabulary word for people who came to the New World to work without pay for a certain length of time to work off their debts:
What is an indentured servants
300
This was the name of the experienced explorer who was saved by Chief Powhatan’s daughter:
Who is John Smith
300
The Quakers settled this colony:
What is Pennsylvania
300
This was the vocabulary word for settlers who paid their lord an annual rent and worked for him for a fixed number of days each year:
Who are tenant farmers
300
This was the main cash crop in South Carolina and Georgia:
What is rice
400
This is the vocabulary word for a specific plan of government:
What is a constitution
400
This was the name of the joint-stock company that funded the settlement of Jamestown.
What is the Virginia Company
400
This was the proprietor, or governor, or New York:
Who is the Duke of York
400
The Spanish were mostly concerned with promoting this in the New World:
What is religion
400
John Oglethorpe was the leader of which southern colony:
What is Georgia
500
This is the vocabulary word for religious settlements established to convert people to a specific religion:
What are missions
500
This was the governor of Plymouth:
Who is John Winthrop
500
Name the four Middle Colonies:
What are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware
500
Name all of the New England colonies:
What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Delaware
500
Name all of the Southern Colonies:
What are Maryland, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Virginia