What region was known for its
whalers?
New England
What are assemblies and legislatures?
Lawmaking bodies
Who was the founder of Maryland?
Lord Baltimore
What do we call people who agreed to work in
exchange for their trip to the colonies being paid
for?
Indentured servants
What goods were traded from Africa to the West
Indies as part of the Triangular Trade Route?
slaves
What region grew wheat, barley and
rye?
Middle Colonies
What types of goods were traded from England to
the colonies as part of the triangular trade route?
Manufactured goods
In the triangular trade system, what goods were sent from the West Indies
to the colonies?
Sugar and molasses (and slaves from
Africa)
What colonial region was educated
through private schools?
Middle colonies
Which regions farmers were mostly subsistence farmers?
New England
Who was the founder of Georgia?
James Oglethorpe
What colonial region was educated
through public schools?
New England
What do we call the series of trading routes found in colonial times?
Triangular trade
What colonial region educated their
children through tutors?
southern
Who was the founder of
Pennsylvania?
William Penn
What region was known for its shipbuilding?
New England
What colony was founded as a home
for debtors?
Georgia
What was the name for the series of laws
passed to control the slaves?
Slave codes
What colonies legislature was
called the House of Burgesses?
Virginia
What do we call a person who learned
a trade from a master craftsman?
apprentice
What religion was associated with
Maryland?
Catholic
What was the name of the slave trip from
Africa to the colonies?
Middle Passage
What was the theory called which said that a country
became strong by increasing trade and
building up its gold supply.
mercantilism
What do we call the rich area of the
Southern Colonies?
tidewater
What colony did the Puritans and
Pilgrims settle in?
Massachusetts
What are crops called which are sold
for a profit?
Cash crop
What was the name for the document which the
Pilgrims wrote telling how they were going to govern
their settlement?
Mayflower Compact
What is the belief that one race is
superior to another?
racism
Who was the founder of Rhode
Island?
Roger Williams
What was the uprising of
backcountry farmers in Virginia called?
Bacon’s Rebellion
What colonial region was known as the
Breadbasket Colonies?
Middle Colonies
What women said God spoke directly
to her?
Anne Hutchinson
What do we call the area next to the
Appalachian Mountains?
backcountry
Who was the founder of the
colony later known as New York?
Peter Minuit
What was the religion associated with Pennsylvania?
Quakers
What were the German speaking
people of Pennsylvania known
as?
Pennsylvania Dutch
In the triangular trade system, what goods were sent from the colonies to Africa?
Tools, fish, lumber, etc.
(things found in the colonies)
Which region was home to plantations?
Southern Colonies
Which region had the longest growing
seasons?
Southern Colonies
What was the Maryland Act dealing with
freedom of religion?
Act of Toleration
What region was the most religious?
New England (mostly
Massachusetts)
What was the first permanent English settlement in the
New World?
Jamestown
What word means a willingness to let
others practice their own beliefs?
toleration
What region had rocky soil?
New England
What leader helped Jamestown to
survive?
John Smith
Which region was known for its
craftsmen?
Middle Colonies (especially the
Pennsylvania Dutch)
What was the general name for goods such as lumber and iron, which were traded from the colonies to England?
Raw materials
Who was the founder of
Connecticut?
Thomas Hooker
What were the main crops of the
Southern Colonies?
Tobacco, indigo and rice
What type of labor dominated southern
plantations?
slaves
What do we call goods entering a
country?
imports
What do we call goods leaving a
country?
exports