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REGIONS
COLONIES
ECONOMY
GOVERNMENT
EDUCATION
100
What most of the settlers did for a living in the middle colonies.
What is farming?
100
The colony that was given to King Charles' brother.
What is New York (New Netherland)?
100
Rice and indigo
What are the 2 major cash crops of South Carolina and Georgia?
100
Where the first elected legislature was founded.
What is Virginia?
100
Children learned to read and write from their parents.
Who the children of the backcountry learned from?
200
These colonies make up the middle colonies.
What are Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, and Delaware?
200
The colony that began as a 'Holy Experiment" where all people would live in peace.
What is Pennsylvania?
200
The two major port cities located in the middle colonies.
What are New York and Philadelphia?
200
A person that was elected to the legislature in Virginia.
What is a burgess?
200
A boy or girl who learned a skill or craft from and experienced worker.
What is an apprentice?
300
Why the middle colonies were known as the bread basket of the English colonies.
What is wheat and other grains?
300
Many slaves adopted this as their religion upon arriving in the Enlish colonies.
What is christianity?
300
The 2 major exports of the middle colonies.
What are wheat and furs?
300
A council.
What governors chose to help them make decisions and laws?
300
Children learn to ride horses, hunt, dance, and play a musical instrument.
What do children learn to do on plantations?
400
The southern colonies.
What are Virginia, S. Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, and North Carolina?
400
The first permanent English colony?
What is Jamestown?
400
The major source of income in the southern colonies.
What is agriculture?
400
Land owners who chose governors to rule their far away colonies.
Who were proprietors?
400
Hired teachers.
Who taught children living on plantations?
500
Many nations settled here because of the belief in tolerance.
What are the middle colonies?
500
The major cash crop of Virginia.
What is tobacco?
500
The system of allowing people to produce what they choose.
What is free enterprise?
500
The middle colony where elected assemblies had the most power.
What is Pennsylvania.
500
He was an inventor, scientist, and writer.
Who is Ben Franklin?