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