People
This Native American girl married a colonist, which helped made peace between the groups.
Pocahontas
Why did the Pilgrims go to America?
Religious freedom
The crop that was very profitable for Jamestown
Tobacco
How many colonies were there?
13
People who were forcibly brought to America to work for no pay.
Slaves
This group of people came and formed their own settlement at Plymouth for religious freedom.
Pilgrims
What was the reason the settlers went to Jamestown? Why did they go there? What did they want?
Get rich/find gold
This type of crop is grown for profit (____ crop).
Cash crop
The three regions of the 13 colonies
New England, Middle, and Southern
The name of the series of trade routes across the Atlantic Ocean where ships sailed between Europe, Africa, and the Americas (hint: it's a shape)
Triangular Trade
This group came to America for religious freedom, but they were very religiously strict and did not allow people to practice other religions.
Puritans
William Penn and the Quakers came to America for religious freedom and founded this colony.
Pennsylvania
This type of crop is needed, like wheat and corn. It is typically grown and used to feed a family (____ crop).
Staple crop
Name a Southern colony
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
The name given to the journey slaves took from Africa to the Americas where they were packed onto ships
Middle Passage
He married Pocahontas and introduced tobacco to the Jamestown colony.
John Rolfe
The Jamestown settlement eventually became a part of this larger colony. (Jamestown was located in...)
Virginia
These geographic conditions enabled Southern colonies to grow crops that were profitable.
Warm climate, fertile soil, longer growing season
Name a New England colony.
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
People who would have their trip to America paid for but had to work off this debt, usually for 5-7 years.
Indentured servants
He took charge of the Jamestown. "He that shall not work, shall not eat."
John Smith
What was the name of the document that the Pilgrims signed that they agreed to have/obey laws?
Mayflower Compact
These geographic conditions caused the New England colonies to only have smaller family farms, not big plantations like the Southern colonies.
Rocky soil, harsher climate, shorter growing season
The New York colony was in the ________ colonies (which region?)
Middle colonies
The name of the first colonial legislature in which colonists elected representatives
Virginia House of Burgesses