First permanent settlement by England in North America.
What is Jamestown?
100
The largest city in the Middle Colonies.
What is Philadelphia?
100
Settlers turned to trade and fishing due to this geographic reason.
What is rocky soil?
100
Large farms devoted to one cash crop.
What are plantations?
100
Assisted the Virginia settlers in survival skills and taught them the cultivation of tobacco.
What are the Powhatan?
200
These three products were foundation of southern colonial economy.
What is tobacco, rice, and indigo?
200
Founded Pennsylvania as a haven for Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
200
Puritans practiced direct democracy at these events.
What is town meeting?
200
These settlers agreed to come to the new world for passage on a ship and worked for no wages for seven years.
What are indentured servants?
200
This tribe practiced democracy with every tribe in their confederation having a vote in Indian issues and great respect for women who picked tribal leaders.
What are the Iroquois?
300
The first colonial assembly saw 2 representatives from each town.
What is the House of Burgesses?
300
The middle colonies got this name from the main crop grown on individually family farms.
What is "breadbasket"?
300
Puritan parents were concerned their children would not be able to join their parents in heaven, but they created this opportunity for partial membership in the church.
What is the Halfway Covenant?
300
People brought to Virginia in 1619 by Dutch traders who worked on plantations.
What are slaves?
300
Agitated and angry over continued expansion west onto Indian lands, this war led to decimation of native population in New England.
What is King Phillip's War?
400
This colony was founded as a buffer to Spanish Florida and as a haven for debtors.
What is Georgia?
400
Moved to Philadelphia with no money but through hard work and using talents became an example of social mobility.
Who is Ben Franklin?
400
This war led to very few Native Americans left in the New England region.
What is King Phillip's War?
400
The trade for west Africans to labor in the New World.
What is Triangular Trade?
400
This commodity exchanged between the old world and new world led to improved transportation and hunting for Native Americans.
What is the horse?
500
This crop saved the Virginia colony.
What is tobacco?
500
The Quakers had good relations with the Native Americans for this important reason.
What is pay Native Americans for their land?
500
Mass hysteria and accusations led to the execution of 19 innocent people.
What are the Salem Witch trials?
500
The most difficult part of the trip for Africans during the trip to the new world.
What is the Middle Passage?
500
The name for the exchange of goods from Europe to America and from America to Europe that brought new products and diseases to each continent.