Comparing the English Colonies

How many regions were the 13 English colonies broken into?

• One

• Three

• Seven

• Thirteen

Which of these was NOT a region for the 13 English Colonies?

• Northwest

• Middle

• New England

• Southern

Indigenous people were living on the land before English colonies were established.

• True

• False

Match the following

• Rhode Island

• Number of colonies

• 13

• Southern Colony

• New York

• Middle Colony

• Virginia

• New England Colony

Early colonizers of New England came to America seeking freedom from what?

• Getting married

• Doing chores

• Religious persecution

• Indigenous people

What was the nickname for the group that settled/established Pennsylvania?

• Puritans

• Anglicans

• Knights

• Quakers

What is/was mercantilism?

• A game colonists invented to pass the time

• An Indigenous group that was at the first Thanksgiving

• An economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and forming colonies

• A cash crop that colonists learned to grow

All the colonies were established with the permission of the ____ of England.

A formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed.

• Mayflower

• Columbian Exchange

• Charter

• The U.S. Constitution

How did German schoolteacher Gottlieb Mittelberger describe the voyage across the Atlantic from Europe to the colonies in America?

• Awesome!

• Most fun ever!

• Horrible!

• First class!