Native American Tribes
What is nothing?
Sir Francis Drake was a member of this group of English Privateers, who stole from the Spanish Colonies.
Who are the Sea Dogs?
This cash crop is what eventually allowed the Virginia Colony to succeed.
What is Tobacco?
This was the largest and richest of the Middle Colonies, and its capital of Philadelphia was the site of the Continental Congress depicted in the musical 1776.
What is Pennsylvania?
The first colony in New England was founded by this Christian religious sect.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This group of unrelated Native American tribes had a complex political structure that may have been one of the ideas for American Democracy.
What was the Iroquois Confederacy?
The Puritans and Pilgrims disagreed about whether or not this religious body could be 'saved'.
What is the Church of England?
This was the last of the Southern Colonies, and the last of any of the original thirteen colonies, to be established.
What is Georgia?
Compared to the southern colonies, middle colony farms focused on producing this instead.
What is food?
These colonies were founded by former citizens of Massachusetts Bay who wished for more religious freedom.
What are Connecticut and Rhode Island?
This Native American group served the United States Military in World War 2, using their language to send secret messages.
Who are the Navajo?
This King established the Church of England and separated from the Catholic Church in order to marry a new wife.
Who is Henry VIII?
This Southern Colony was the only one to pass a law ensuring religious freedom, and soon found its main religion badly outnumbered.
What is Maryland?
This colony was originally settled by the Dutch, and was known as New Amsterdam.
What is New York?
This document was written the year after the House of Burgesses was established in Virginia, and is the beginning of European Democracy in New England.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This type of Native American home was made out of stone, by cutting the home straight out of a rocky cliff. Many tribes dwelled in this style of home, such as the Taos, San Ildefonso, Acoma, Zuni, and Hopi.
What are Pueblos?
This economic innovation allowed Britain to use its small amount of wealth very effectively in establishing colonies.
What is the Joint Stock Company?
This colony was mostly populated by poor white farmers who were former indentured servants.
What is North Carolina?
This man was the founder of Pennsylvania.
Who is William Penn?
This was the second colony in New England, and its harbor eventually became known as the city of Boston.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
This group of tribes get their name from the many related languages they speak.
Who are the Algonquin?
This Puritan member of parliament became a dictator and took the title of "Lord Protector"; while he was eventually overthrown, the King of England never was more powerful than Parliament after him.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
This system of bribing potential indentured servants was eventually replaced when the Southern Colonies decided to use black slavery instead.
What is the Headright System?
This was the primary religion in New Jersey and Pennsylvania, and helped ensure religious freedom there. Please use the religion's proper name, not the name for the people who followed it.
What is the Society of Friends?
New England emphasized public education from a young age for this purpose.
What is reading the Bible?