Geography
This region had a warm and humid climate and the longest growing season
This crop saved the Virginia colony -- and became the most profitable crop of the Southern colonies
Tobacco
Mayflower Compact
This religious group founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony to practice their religion, but did not grant religious tolerance to others
Puritans
This leader turned Jamestown around by enforcing the rule "He who works not, eats not"
John Smith
New England's landscape made farming difficult due to thick forests and this type of soil..
Rocky soil
The Middle Colonies earned this nickname because they produced large amounts of grain like wheat
"Americas Breadbasket"
Established in Virginia, this was the first representative assembly or government in colonial America
House of Burgesses
Also known as the "Society of Friends", this religious group was led by William Penn and founded Pennsylvania
Quakers
This English colonist introduced high-grade tobacco to Virginia and famously married Pocahontas, likely as a peace alliance with the Powhatan
John Rolfe
The Middle Colonies' geography featured coastal plains along with this major navigable river?
Hudson River
Tobacco, rice, indigo, sugar, and cotton grown in the Southern Colonies were classified under this term
Cash Crops
In New England, voting rights were strictly limited to this group
This colony was founded by Roger Williams specifically to offer religious freedom for those dissenting (leaving) from Puritan rule in Massachusetts Bay
Rhode Island
This city was built to serve as the capital and "City upon a Hill" for the Massachusetts Bay Colony
This geographic region suffered from long, snowy winters and a very short growing season
New England Colonies
The expansion of large-scale cash crop farming in the South directly created a high demand for this type of labor
Slave labor
John Wintrop sought to govern Massachusetts Bay as an ideal, religious Christian model known by this famous phrase
"City Upon a Hill"
This colony was founded as a safe haven for Catholics to practice their beliefs after being persecuted in England
Maryland
This city located along the Hudson River, formerly known as New Amsterdam, was renamed after the English took control of the colony
New York City
Both the Middle and Southern colonies shared this flat landscape feature along their eastern coats
Coastal Plains
Besides gold and silver, the Virginia Company hoped to profit from trading this animal product in North America
Furs
Maryland passed this law in 1649 to protect the religious rights of Catholics in the colony
Act of Toleration (1649)
The Quakers held these two progressive (forward thinking) social beliefs ahead of their time
Equality for all (opposition to slavery/equal social rights for women); Pacifism (anti-violence)
This Native American from the Patuxet tribe (joined the Wampanoag after returning from England as a servant) helped save the Plymouth colonists by teaching them local agricultural techniques
Squanto (Tisquantum)