American Colonies (New England, Middle, Southern Colonies)

Most settlers who came to the New England colonies (Puritans, Pilgrims, etc.) were seeking

• Economic Freedom

• Political Independence

• Religious Freedom

• Profit from starting up plantations

The first permanent settlement in the modern-day United States

• Roanoke

• Philadelphia

• Plymouth

• Jamestown

NOT something that was true about indentured servants in the colonies

• Someone paid for their trip across the Atlantic to come to the colonies

• They worked for someone in the colonies usually for 4-7 years

• They were never granted freedom

• They did not always receive money for working, but were given food and shelter

An economic idea where countries in Europe tried to get rich by starting colonies (which provided raw materials)

• Transcendentalism

• Capitalism

• Socialism

• Mercantilism

Jamestown faced many challenges, but this was not really one of them

• The area was full of mosquitoes carrying malaria

• The soil was very swampy and poor for farming

• The French Navy often tried to invade the colony

• The settlers sometimes had problems with local Native Americans

The cash-crop that saved Jamestown, and the settler who showed that it could be grown there

• Tobacco; John Smith

• Tobacco; John White

• Cotton; John Rolfe

• Tobacco; John Rolfe

People in England who wanted to break away from the Anglican Church (or Church of England) were known as

• Separatists

• Proprietors

• Puritans

• Dissenters

An official written document (usually provided by a king or queen) that gives people the right to settle a colony

• Compact

• Charter

• Code

• Contract

Extremely religious (and strict) people called Puritans settled which colony?

• Rhode Island

• Massachusetts

• Connecticut

• Virginia

Public education was highly valued in which colonial region? (Parents wanted children to be able to read the Bible)

• Southern Colonies

• Middle Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Education was not really valued in any colonial regions