New England Colonies
This colonial region was the hub of the shipping trade in North America.
What are the New England colonies?
This region had cash crops, a mining industry, and cultural and religious diversity.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This Colonial Region had little industry and large plantations using slave labor.
What is the Southern Colonies?
This crop "saved" the Jamestown settlement.
What is Tobacco?
This nickname was given to Pilgrims because they wanted to leave the Anglican Church and form their own.
What is a Separatist?
This is the primary reason why several New England cities became major shipbuilding centers.
What is they were located on the coast?
This Colony was established by the Swedes.
What is Delaware?
This colony was originally established for religious freedom for Roman Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This was granted to groups of merchants to organize settlements in North America from King James I.
What is a Charter?
This law granted the right to worship freely in Maryland but protected Catholics from any attempt to make Maryland a protestant colony.
What is the Act of Toleration?
This was the founder of the Massachusetts Bay colony.
Who is John Winthrop?
This founder advertised religious freedom in the colony and viewed it as a "holy experiment"
Who is William Penn?
This colony was originally settled as a military barrier and a place where debtors could pay off their debt.
What is Georgia?
He was selected as Jamestown's leader and helped bring order to the colony by establishing strict rules.
Who is John Smith?
This religion (branch) would be associated with the New England colonies.
What are Puritans?
This type of meeting would be significant to the New England colonies and was a way that colonists could make their voice heard.
What is a Town Meeting?
This reason best explains how a free-market economy developed in New Jersey.
The proprietors allowed settlers to farm or run businesses as they pleased.
This representative form of government was established in Virginia to allow voters to elect representatives to make laws.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The Jamestown colonists used this term to describe the winter of 1609-1610.
What is the Starving Time?
This religion believed that everyone was created equal.
Who are Quakers?
This colony had a unique idea that the government and the church should be seperate.
What is Rhode Island?
This colony will later become the state that Alexander Hamilton will die in as a result of a duel.
What is New Jersey?
The increased number of enslaved Africans was a direct result of this.
What is the Plantation system?
This was the most likely reason that the Virginia Company chose the location for Jamestown in 1607.
What is safety from Spanish ships?
This colony was referred to as "the lower counties" before it became a colony.
What is Delaware?