The 13 Colonies

1. – English religious group who wanted to reform the Church of England.
3. – Depended on shipbuilding, timber, and fishing from the forest and sea.
5. – Colony named after Lord De La Warr, governor of Virginia.
6. – The right to practice different religions, a main reason some groups migrated to the colonies.
8. – Last of the thirteen colonies, founded in 1733 as a refuge for debtors.
9. – England’s first attempt at a colony in North America, remembered as the “Lost Colony.”
11. – Colony founded by William Penn as a home for Quakers.
12. – The first representative assembly in the English colonies, established in Virginia.
14. – Relied on cash crops such as wheat and a variety of crafts and industries.
18. – Economic system in which individuals invest money in businesses to earn profits.
20. – Agreement signed by Pilgrims in 1620 that set up self-government.
21. – Based on huge plantations and the use of enslaved African labor.
22. – Powhatan woman associated with Jamestown, later married John Rolfe.
23. – Puritan colony founded north of Plymouth, known for strict religious practices.
24. – First permanent English settlement in North America, founded in 1607.

2. – Cash crop that made Jamestown profitable for the Virginia Company.
3. – Colony that began as Dutch New Netherland before being taken by the English.
4. – One of the women accused and executed during the Salem Witch Trials.
7. – Colony split from New York and named after an island in the English Channel.
10. – Economic policy where colonies provided raw materials and markets to enrich the mother country.
13. – Quaker leader who founded Pennsylvania on principles of tolerance and equality.
15. – Southern colony founded as a haven for Catholics.
16. – A crop grown in large amounts to be sold for profit, like tobacco, rice, or indigo.
17. – Colony established by the Pilgrims in present-day Massachusetts.
19. – Jamestown leader who enforced rules that helped the colony survive.
21. – Massachusetts town where the 1692 witch trials occurred.