Colonies
The first successful English colony of 1607.
What is Jamestown?
The beginning of representative government in America in both Virginia and Massachusetts. (2)
What were The House of Burgesses (Va) and The Mayflower Compact (Mass)?
The reasons settlers came to America was they looked for ________.
What was gold and wealth?
The main source of money and financial success for the early colonies.
What was the Triangular Trade route?
The colonies that used the most slavery.
What were the Southern Colonies?
The second successful English colony of 1620.
What is Massachusettes?
John Smith's plan and "rule" for success in Virginia.
What was "He who works not, eats not."?
The season most settlers died of starvation and disease.
What was winter?
The CONTINENT where slaves were captured and brought to America to work on plantations.
What was Africa?
The country that did NOT like that the colonies were profiting from the triangular trade.
What was England?
The last and 13th colony of 1733.
What is Georgia?
A person who is given power by being elected or voted for by the people, to act and make laws.
What is a representative?
Those who worked so hard, without pay, helped settlers succeed and profit from their crops on farms/plantations.
What were African slaves?
The group of colonies mostly grew wheat, grain and corn.
What were the Middle Colonies?
The emotional response from the colonies to England's increased taxes and tariffs.
What was anger and frustration?
The 3 reasons for settlers to go to America.
What is "wealth, a better life, and religious freedom"?
The document (paper) from the King giving land to a group of settlers in America.
What was a charter?
The plant was grown on many southern colonies' farms/plantations and is used for smoking.
What is tobaccoo?
The group of colonies that found success with fishing, fur and lumber from the forests.
What were the New England colonies?
England's response to the colony's financial success and profits of the triangular trade.
What was anger and more taxes?
The time in Jamestown when people did not work, there was little or no food, and many died.
What is the Starving Time?
The 3 groups of colonies based on their resources for trade with other countries.
What were the New England, the Middle, and the Southern colonies?
People in debt (owed money) came to THIS COLONY from England.
What was the colony of Georgia?
The group of colonies that grew tobacco, rice and cotton.
What were the Southern Colonies?
The worst, most horrible "commodity" traded in the triangular trade route.
What were African slaves?