Explorers
He sailed West.
Christopher Columbus.
The soil was _____.
Rocky
The colonies in the middle.
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, and Delaware.
The backbone of the economy.
Slavery.
He was the first president of the United States.
George Washington.
The United States is named after this Italian explorer.
Amerigo Vespucci.
Name a dominant religious group. (separatists).
Pilgrims.
The kind of agriculture that took place here.
Large scale agriculture.
Cash crops.
Tobacco and cotton.
He saved the Union.
Abraham Lincoln.
The first European to establish an ocean route to India.
Vasco da Gamma.
Name a dominant religious group (non-separatists).
Puritans.
In the Middle colonies we primarily grew _____.
Wheat and corn.
Type of agriculture.
Large scale.
This place was attached by Japan in WWII.
Pearl Harbor.
Named the Pacific ocean.
Ferdinand Magellan.
The economy was centered on ______.
Shipbuilding and Seafaring.
Leader from the Middle colonies.
Benjamin Franklin.
Many slaves worked in places like these.
Plantations.
The year the United States achieved independence.
1776.
The first European to round the southern tip of Africa.
Bartolomeu Dias
The type of agriculture that took place here.
Small scale agriculture.
Name three religious groups.
Quakers, Mennonites, Angelicans.
Name the southern colonies.
Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia.
The 44th president.
Barrack Obama.