Early Colonies
England wanted to use their colonies to gain more of this
What are resources? (materials)
Lots of lumber for building boats
What is the North?
Some American Colonies allowed people to practice their own...
What is religion
What is Thanksgiving?
Crops grown to sell for profit
What are Cash Crops?
The ocean that people sailed across to get to America from Europe
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Slavery grew rapidly in this part of the country
What is the South?
Due to the large distance from the king, colonists often set up their own...
What are local governments?
American settlers began moving onto Native land without permission
What is the reason conflict arose?
People who travel for religious reasons
What are Pilgrims?
The warm, humid weather and good soil made it much easier to set up a colony
What is the South? (double points if you can name the first Southern colony)
This became the first major cash crop of the South
What is tobacco?
People had a chance to get this is they moved to the American Colonies
What is money and Land?
The reason Native Americans lost most battles with the colonists
What are guns?
Growing just enough food to survive
What is Subsistence Farming?
The cold weather and rocky soil made it difficult to establish colonies here
What is the North? (double points if you can name the first Northern colony)
Known as the "bread basket" of America
What are the Middle Colonies?
Some American Colonies started doing this to decide laws and leaders
What is voting?
Fur, food, weapons, and money
What are Refugees?
Name three foods grown in the early colonies
What is squash, corn, beans, pumpkins, wheat, and/or peas?
This area was the most diverse and accepting of different religions
What are the Middle Colonies?
For some people, they left Europe to protect themselves from...
Religious persecution, poverty, or war/conflict
These were one of the only religions to treat Natives as equals and pay them for their land
What are Quakers?
When people are targeted for being different
What is Persecuted?