Geography & Environment
These bodies of water helped determine where early colonial settlements were built for their ease of navigating and readily available food source.
What are rivers and/or harbors?
This was the first successful English colony, founded in 1607.
What is Jamestown?
Native American populations dropped sharply after European arrival mainly because of this reason.
What are European diseases?
This document was created by Pilgrims to establish self-government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The horrible voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the Americas is called this.
What is the Middle Passage?
This region’s colonies were known for rocky soil and cold winters.
What is New England?
This colony was founded by Pilgrims seeking religious freedom in 1620.
What is Plymouth?
This disease was one of the deadliest brought by Europeans to Native peoples.
What is smallpox?
Colonial society developed social classes. Wealthy landowners and merchants were at the top, while poor farmers, servants, and enslaved Africans were near the bottom. This kind of ranked organization is called this.
What is a social hierarchy / social structure?
Who are Indentured Servants?
This region’s colonies were known for it's short winters and long summers.
What is the Middle Colonies?
This European group first colonized what is now New York State.
Who are the Dutch?
William Penn's policies toward Native Americans encouraged this type of relationship.
What is peaceful coexistence?
This colony promoted equality and tolerance under Quaker ideals.
What is Pennsylvania?
The route connecting Europe, Africa, and the Americas for trade was called this.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This coast was where most 13 colonies began.
What is the Atlantic Coast?
This colony was founded as a "holy experiment" based on tolerance.
What is Pennsylvania?
This group of Native Americans lived in the Northeastern woodlands and formed a confederacy with other tribes.
Who are the Iroquois?
The main reason colonists created documents like town meetings or compacts.
What is self-government?
The biggest reason the number of enslaved Africans increased in the 1600s and 1700s was the spread of this type of large-scale farming in the Southern Colonies.
What is plantations?
This major natural barrier helped determine where many settlements in the 1600s were not built.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
This Native group was destroyed during early contact with Puritans.
Who were the Wampanoag?
Because of disease and conflict, there were fewer Native Americans available for labor. This change encouraged Europeans to increasingly turn to this group for forced work.
Who are Africans?
Winthrop believed his colony must act as an example for others, symbolized in the phrase “a ______ upon a ______”.
What is “a city upon a hill”?
In the triangular trade, colonies in North America sent raw materials like lumber, fish, and whale oil to this country.
What is Great Britain (England)?