Terms
This term refers to the document needed to start a colony.
What is a Charter?
This building was what many kids had to walk to, sometimes taking hours.
What is a single room school house?
This was the name of the first settlement by the English that failed with everyone disappearing.
What is Roanoke?
This is the group that was attempting to get to Virginia and blew off course to Cape Cod.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This is the colony set up by the Dutch originally called New Netherland.
What is New York?
This term refers to a group that is being mistreated for their religious beliefs.
What is persecution?
This living set up was common for many colonists.
What is living in a single room with your entire family?
This physical feature helped the Southern Colonies produce more crops compared to their Northern counterparts.
What is warmer weather?
Like the other British Colonies, the New England Colonies started off in this way.
What is a rough start?
New Amsterdam was aquired by the British in this way.
What is by force?
This term refers to a government body tasked in making laws.
What is a legislator?
The farming system that the majority of Americans lived off of.
What is subsistence farming?
The name of a large farm owned by one family that acts as its own town.
What is a plantation?
This physical feature made it difficult for the first colonists that moved here.
What is colder winters?
The Name of the group that settled Pennsylvania and were considered pacifists.
Who were the Quakers?
This term refers to an individual that willing gives up their rights and works for free to have passage to the colonies.
What is an indentured servant?
This social and economic system was shared by all thirteen of the colonies that made it cheaper to produce resources.
What is Slavery?
What is a Cash Crop?
The name of the document that the Pilgrims signed while sailing over to the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This geographic feature made colonies like New York, Pennsylvania, and Boston trade hubs for the colonies.
What are great harbors?
This term refers to the trading system that brought slaves to the colonies and goods back to Europe.
What is Triangle Trade?
The religious event that encouraged people to chose their own beliefs in Christianity.
What is the Great Awakening?
This event was caused by colonists moving onto Native American lands in defiance of what the governor said.
What is the Virginia Rebellion?
This event was most likely caused by mass psychogenic illness (MPI) where many neighbors accused each other for their lands.
What was the Salem Witch Trials?
This ethic group was already living in New Jersey before the British acquired the land.
Who are the Swedish?