Regional Facts Colonial Founders Colonial Government Conflict in the Colonies Life in the Colonies Hodge Podge
Due to a short growing season and rocky, sandy soil, New Englanders mainly practiced this type of farming.
What is subsistence farming?
A nearly year-round growing season and plantation farming allowed this class of people in the Southern colonies to grow wealthy and powerful.
What is the Planter Class?
Cash crop farming in this region led to the growth of grist mills, which were used to crush grain into flour or meal.
What is the Middle colony region?
The growth of New England was based partly on the demand for the oil from this mammal.
What is a whale?
Shipbuilding was a successful trade in the New England colonies because of this abundant resource.
What is timber?
He is credited with founding both Pennsylvania and Delaware.
Who is William Penn?
The English king allowed this man to start the colony of Georgia in order to create a buffer zone between Spanish Florida and British territory.
Who is James Oglethorpe?
He founded Rhode Island due to disagreements with Puritan leaders.
Who is Roger Williams?
Lord Baltimore founded Maryland as a haven for this religious group.
What is Maryland?
Sir George Carteret and this man started the colony of New Jersey when given land by their friend, the Duke of York.
Who is Lord John Berkley?
This was the name of the first representative assembly in the American colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
The Exeter Compact and this document, created by the Pilgrims, put in writing sets of laws to govern their colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Royal colonies were controlled by the king while proprietaries were controlled by these.
What are private owners?
In Maryland, this was passed in order to guarantee that religious freedom was not only promised but enforced as well.
What is the Toleration Act?
Thomas Hooker created this document to guarantee individual rights to people living within the colony he founded.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
This became the colony of New York when the Duke of York forced the Dutch to give it up.
What New Netherland?
Rebellious slaves killed several planter families in this bloody conflict.
What is the Stono Rebellion?
Traditional Puritan beliefs and ideas from the New World clashed when several men and women were executed during this strange event.
What are the Salem Witchcraft Trials?
Colonists engaged in war with the Wampoanog in order to gain more land.
What King Phillip’s War?
Landless colonists staged an uprising against the Virginia colonial government in this conflict.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
Nine out of ten colonists lived on these.
What are farms?
Being locked in these was a common form of public humiliation in the colonies.
What are the town stocks?
Colonists living in cities usually kept these beside their doors due to the constant danger of fire.
What are buckets?
This was considered the most dangerous job on colonial farms.
What is cooking?
This movement helped to spread ideas that would spark the American Revolution.
What is the First Great Awakening?
The success of Jamestown was due in large part to the growth and sale of this cash crop.
What is tobacco?
This is the name given to the area in and around the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Backcountry?
This describes the movement of Puritans to the Americas.
What is the Great Migration?
She fled to Rhode Island when her ideas challenged the beliefs of the Puritans.
Who is Anne Hutchinson?
These are three reasons why early English colonies such as Roanoke and Virginia failed.
What are lack of food, landing too late to plant crops, and problems with Native Americans?