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