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