Geography of Colonies
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100

This is the first permanent colony of the English in North America.

What is Jamestown?

100

A person that settles in a new land. 

What is a Colonist?

100

This valuable cash crop was a stable of the southern colonies

What is cotton?

100

This was the first attempted colony by the English in North America and it famously disappeared.

What is Roanoke?

100

Most colonist lived in towns or farms?

Farms

200

This colony is the furthest south on the map.

What is Georgia?

200

These are crops grown for their value and were key to the colony's success.

What are cash crops?

200

Gold and this metal were sent to Europe in exchange for weapons.

What is iron?

200

King James gave the Virginia Company a charter to establish a new colony in North America. This colony was

What is Jamestown?

200

The West Indies produced this valuable cash crop.

What is sugar?

300

The New England, _________, and Southern colonies are the three major regions of English colonies in North America.

What are the Middle Colonies?
300

This word came to indicate a group of colonists seeking to purify the Church of England.

What is Puritan?

300

The Americas received manufactured goods in exchange for _____ materials.

What are raw materials?
300

This individual we read about was captured off of the coast of Africa and enslaved, however earned his freedom. 

Who is Olaudah Equiano?

300

The southern most regions of colonies are called this.

What are the Southern Colonies?

400

The Triangular Trade route connected these three continents: The Americas, Europe, Africa and these islands...

What are The West Indies?

400

This is the action by a country to establish colonies in a new land. 

What is colonization?

400

Enslaved Africans were shipped across this passage of the Triangle Trade System.

What is the Middle Passage?

400

This was the revival of religion in the English colonies.

What is the Great Awakening?

400

The English were not the only ones to colonize North America, as were the French and...

Who are the Spanish?

500

This colony in New England was settled by the Puritans and Pilgrims, escaping religious persecution in England. 

What is Massachusetts? 

500

This trade system connected Europe, Africa, and The Americas. 

What is the Triangle Trade System?

500
The Middle Colonies are known for their climate and growing conditions - growing crops like oats and wheat giving them this nickname.

What is the Breadbasket region?

500

Johnathan Edwards was an important figure in the Great Awakening because of his profession as a...

What is a Preacher?

500

This famous Powhatan woman helped John Smith, and the rest of the Jamestown colony survive the starving time.

Who is Pocahontas?