Colonial America Flashcards
(24 cards)
What cash crop was introduced by the Powhatan and grown by John Rolfe?
Tobacco
What strict religious group settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
Puritans
What colony was established by those from debtor prisons?
Georgia
What colony was started for economic reasons by a former knight and pirate?
Roanoke
What city became the largest port and ecenter of radical thought?
Boston
What holiday was created by Native Americans feeding the Pilgrims?
Thanksgiving
What colony did the Pilgrims settle?
Plymouth
Jamestown imported the first ______ to work the fields.
slaves
What colonial region had rocky soil, cold winters, and manufacturing?
New England
Who was given orders by Queen Elizabeth to found an economic colony?
Walter Raleigh
The Roanoke Colony vanished, and has been known since as the ___________.
Lost Colony
What did most settlers in the northern colonies arrive for?
Religious Freedom
What was the first legal agreement of the English settlers?
The Mayflower Compact
What colony in the south was founded by the English company?
Jamestown
Who forcibly led the people of Jamestown and made them survive?
John Smith
What colony was formed to settle a debt and for religious freedom?
Pennsylvania
Who married Pocahontas, the daughter of Chief Powhatan?
John Rolfe
What religious group mainly settled in the Pennsylvania Colony?
Quakers
Who was the Pennsylvania Colony named after?
William Penn
What states did the Middle colonies consist of?
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware
What states did the Northern colonies consist of?
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut
What states did the Southern colonies consist of?
Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Who granted a charter to the Virginia Company to civilize America?
King James l
What was the House of Burgesses?
Made so colonists could make their own laws
