What is my name?
This person founded Rhode Island because the Puritans in Massachusetts would not tolerate those of other faiths.
Roger Williams
What country colonized south of Georgia?
Spain
What year was Jamestown founded?
1607
Tobacco, rice, and indigo were labor-intensive crops grown in these colonies.
Southern Colonies
The Pilgrims and the Puritans came to the New World to find what kind of freedom?
Religious
Founded Maryland as a safe haven for Catholics
Lord Baltimore / Calvert Family
How would decisions be made under the Mayflower Compact?
Majority-rule
This crop saved Jamestown from failure by making a considerable profit?
Tobacco
This region was known as the "bread basket" because of all the grains grown to feed colonists.
Middle Colonies aka Mid-Atlantic Colonies
What kind of company did investors put money into that founded Virginia?
Joint-Stock Company
I founded Georgia as a place for debtors and convicts.
James Oglethorpe
What year did colonists establish self-government by adopting The Mayflower Compact?
1620
Pacifists don't like what?
Violence/war
Shipbuilding, fishing, fur trapping, lumber milling, and subsistence farming were common in these colonies.
New England Colonies
William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in Pennsylvania meant they would tolerate different __________.
religions
This person founded Connecticut, and wrote the first constitution in the Americas.
Thomas Hooker
What kind of democracy elects people to do the government work, like making laws, for them?
Representative Democracy
Maryland, Connecticut, and Rhode Island were all started to get what?
Religious Freedom
Which colony was founded because of its natural harbors and abundant rivers that provided access to markets where furs could be traded?
New York
African people were captured and taken across the Atlantic to the Americas, this dangerous voyage was called what?
The Middle Passage
DAILY DOUBLE! What allowed all Christians to worship freely in Maryland?
Maryland Toleration Act
Virginia House of Burgesses
This was the system that promised settlers 50 acres of land to those who payed for their own travel across the Atlantic.
The Headright System
Exports from Africa dramatically increased because of demand for labor on huge farms in the Southern Colonies. What are these huge farms called?
Plantations
Indentured servitude and the headright system were both linked to colonists' desire to own what?
Land
What served as a model for other colonial legislatures (law makers)?
Virginia House of Burgesses
This was the first written constitution (plan for government) that established a plan for self-government.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Because of traditions of self-government, colonists felt like they had a right to do what?
Govern themselves
Using slaves in agriculture led to plantation owners getting what?
Profits (money)
Which region would be most likely to sell dried fish?
New England