Social Studies study guide

Quiz 1... Southern Colonies... Test Friday, April 22, 2011

• Jamestown was the first permanent English settlement.


• John Smith said that colonists that did not work could not eat.


• Jamestown almost did not survive The Starving Time.


• Maryland was begun as a refuge for English Catholics.


• The first cash crop in the colonies was tobacco.


• South Carolina's cash crops were rice and indigo.


• The Middle Passage was the trip from Africa to America.


• Slaves did most of the work on plantations.


• James Oglethorpe tried to start a colony for poor people in Georgia.


• Many of the colonial settlers were from the continents of Europe and Africa.


• Be able to label the five southern colonies on a map.