Southern Colonies Vocabulary Quiz

The colonial capital of Virginia as of 1698

• Gullahs

• Williamsburg

• College of William and Mary

• Maryland

The second oldest college in America; established in Williamsburg, VA in 1693

• Cooper

• Plantations

• College of William and Mary

• Huguenots

Colonial children's game

• Blind Man's Bluff

• quillery

• cooper

• turpentine

Colonial children's game played with small spheres of glass or stone; players use their own marbles to knock other players' marbles out of a ring drawn on the ground.

• Blind Man's Bluff

• Plantations

• coopers

• marbles

Person who makes and repairs barrels

• cooper

• turpentine

• Huguenots

• Gullahs

A person who works for a period of four to seven years on a plantation in exchange for passage to the New World and the promise of their own land at the end of servitude.

• Huguenots

• indentured servant

• sericulture

• George Washington

Large farms in the Southern Colonies

• Virginia

• Gullahs

• plantations

• crop houses

Jail for people who do not or cannot pay their bills

Oil from trees that is used as a paint thinner or solvent is called

• sticky

• turpentine

• sap

• Huguenots

French Protestant settlers

• Huguenots

• coopers

• Williamsburg

• Gullahs