Social Studies: Colonial America Study Guide

Wealthy white men who set up governement as the only people who could vote.

• Slave

• Landowners

• Colony

• Puritan

Africans who were forced to work with no pay and no rights.

• Landowners

• Indentured Servants

• Jamestown

• Slave

Land owned by another country

• Colony

• England

Came from Europe signed contracts to work 4 to 7 years for passage to America.

• Slave

• Landowner

• Indentured Servant

• Puritans

Were the primary (main) religious group in the New England Colonies.

• Puritans

• Quaker

• Slave

• Indentured Servant

This country owned and ruled the 13 Original Colonies.

• France

• Spain

• England

• America

In 1607, The Virginia Company sent colonists to this place to find Gold and Silver.

• England

• Jamestown

• Georgia

• New York

What are THREE main industries in the New England Colonies:

• Bread, Timber, and Whales

• Corn, Timber, and Fur

• Timber, Whales, and Fur

• Timber, Bread and Fur

Most colonists received their education at/in

• Their home

• In college

• At school

What was something some slaves were able to do to fight against slavery in the Southern Colonies:

• Get an Education to write against it

• Slow down work