13 Colonies

1. The first permanent English settlement in America
4. A large Southern farm that grew crops like rice, tobacco, or indigo, often using enslaved labor
6. Penn, Quaker who founded Pennsylvania as a place for religious freedom and fair treatment of Native Americans
8. Crop, A crop grown to be sold for money rather than for use by the grower; common in the Southern Colonies
9. People who started new communities in the New World
12. Oglethorpe, Founded Georgia to help debtors and as a buffer against Spanish Florida
13. A land controlled by another country
14. Colonies, Region with warm climate and long growing season; economy based on plantations and cash crops

2. The idea that colonies existed to bring wealth to the mother country
3. Religious group that settled in New England to escape persecution and wanted to "purify" the Church of England
5. England Colonies, Region with rocky soil, cold winters, and an economy based on fishing, shipbuilding, and trade
7. Colonies, Region with fertile soil and a mix of farming and trading; known as the "breadbasket colonies"
10. The first major cash crop in Virginia that made it economically successful
11. The English colony that mysteriously disappeared
12. Smith, Leader who helped Jamestown survive by enforcing discipline and farming