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Colonies 2015
Life in the Colonies
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What is an indentured servant? | a person who agrees to work 5-10 years in exchange for passage to North America |
| What is a merchant? | person or company involved in trade; often with other countries |
| William Penn | Founded Pennsylvania; responsible for largest colonial city Philadelphia; Quaker; he believed in religious freedom |
| The main reasons for the settlement of the colonies | freedom of religion; farming; economics |
| Plymouth | settled by the Pilgrims |
| primary jobs of women in the colonies | working in the home, cooking, and sewing |
| Cash crop that saved Jamestown | Tobacco |
| cash crop | a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower. |
| Georgia | first settled by debtors; named after King George II; founded by William Oglethorpe; |
| New England Colonies | rocky, sandy soil, many trees, and a short growing season? |
| The Lost Colony | Roanoke |
| artisan | a person who is skilled at making things by hand |
| The reason Jamestown almost failed | bad leadership; almost starved to death |
| why was slavery more widespread in the South | large plantations needed more laborers |
| Puritans | settled in New England for religious freedom |
| large plantations | Southern Colonies |
| mild climate, fertile soil, a longer growing season and rivers | Middle colonies |
| New England Colonies | Massachusettes, Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island |
| Middle Colonies | Delaware, New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania |
| Southern Colonies | Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia |
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