Colonial Era

Question 1

Economy in the Colonial Era

Answer 1

The whole economy was dependent on trade in Britain.

Question 2

Quakers/William Penn

Answer 2

Early Quaker and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony and the future Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.

Question 3

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 3

Founding father, inventor, discovered electricity, created the postal system, and revised the Declaration of Independence.

Question 4

Tobacco

Answer 4

Cash crop that practically made their economy and was huge on trade.

Question 5

Slave Labor

Answer 5

Slaves were being use to harvest and plant crops as a cheap source of labor. Taken from their homelands in Africa.

Question 6

Pocahontas/Will Smith

Answer 6

Daughter of a tribal chief and was married to John Rolfe. Will Smith was a white colonist in Native American land.

Question 7

Catholic Missions

Answer 7

Spanish Missionaries were spreading the word of Christianity through the world (America).

Question 8

Conquistadors

Answer 8

The soldiers and explorers of the Spanish Empire or the Portuguese Empire in a general sense.

Question 9

Puritans

Answer 9

A group of English Reformed Protestants in the 16th and 17th centuries who sought to purify the Church of England from all Roman Catholic practices, maintaining that the Church of England was only partially reformed.