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Ways Native Americans adapted to their environment.
What is used the natural resources around them to make clothing, food, and shelter?
Deadly disease spread by the explorers.
What is small pox?
Leader of Jamestown Said “No work, no food!”
Who is John Smith?
Two important inventions that helped during the Age of Exploration.
What is caravel, magnetic compass, astrolabe, and printing press?
The Columbian Exchange
What is the movement of plants, animals, people, and diseases across the Atlantic after Columbus’s?
Middle Colonies nickname
What is the breadbasket?
The colonies located in the Southern region.
What is Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
All of the colonies were built near this for transportation.
What is water?
Made money by shipping, fishing, and timber.
Who is the New England Colonies?
The most popular city during Colonial America.
What is Philadelphia?
Founder of Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
Started the first newspaper, fire department, and library in Philadelphia.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
Provided the labor source for large, colonial landowners
Who is slaves and indentured servants?
Ruled the 13 Colonies
Who is the King of England?
Founded Georgia to help debtors
Who is James Oglethorpe?
A typical dinner.
What is stew?
young person who learns a skill from a more experienced worker.
What is a apprentice?
Held the highest social position in colonial America
Who is the Gentry?
Another name for the craftsmen of the colonial era
Who are artisan?
Three differences between school today and in colonial times
What is stricter, three r’s, multi age, and small classroom.
to trade one good for another
What is barter?
to send goods to other countries for sale or trade
What is export?
the business of buying and selling people.
What is slave trade?
name colonist gave to the rugged land near the Appalachian mountains.
What is back country?
able to rely oneself for most of what one needs
What is self-sufficient?
Two other European countries that conquered land in America.
Who is the French and the Spanish?
The major difference between indentured servants and slaves
What is forced vs. choose to work for a passage to America?
The rights women were denied in colonial America
What is to vote and a college education?
Three places involved in the Triangular Trade Routes
What is 13 Colonies, Europe, Africa, and West Indies?
The way England controlled trading.
What is said with who and how the colonies could trade?