Kings & Colonies
Who appointed the governor of a royal colony?
The King
What three major regions were connected by triangular trade?
Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What two jobs involving the land supported most early New England colonists?
Farming & Lumbering
What natural geographic feature originally stopped English colonists from moving west?
The Appalachian Mountains
Which European country controlled Florida during much of the English colonial period?
Spain
What 1688 event removed King James II from the English throne?
The Glorious Revolution
What was the Middle Passage?
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What two jobs involving the water supported most early New England colonists?
Fishing & Shipbuilding
Which passage provided an important route through the Appalachian Mountains?
Cumberland Gap
What famous American frontiersman helped establish routes for westward settlement?
Daniel Boone
Which two monarchs replaced James II?
William & Mary
What important plantation crop grown in places such as Barbados helped fuel Atlantic trade?
Sugarcane, which was processed into sugar and molasses.
What military purpose did Georgia serve?
It protected South Carolina and other British colonies from Spanish Florida.
What word describes the edge of an expanding settlement area?
The frontier
Which European country controlled much of present-day Canada and the Mississippi River Valley during the English colonial period?
France
What English institution gained more power after the Glorious Revolution?
Parliament
Which region outside of the thirteen colonies was an important stop for ships involved in triangular trade?
The Caribbean/West Indies
How did the climate of the Southern Colonies shape their economy?
Warm weather and long growing seasons encouraged large-scale farming, cash crops, and plantation agriculture.
What was the biggest reason individual colonial settlers and families wanted to move west?
To acquire more land, especially farmland.
Why did westward settlement often create conflict between colonists and Native Americans?
Colonists moved into Native American indigenous homelands, creating competing claims to land and resources.
How did the relationship between the king and parliament change after the Glorious Revoltuion?
The king must follow Parliament's laws.
How did the Atlantic triangular trade depend on slavery.
Enslaved Africans were forcibly transported to the Americas, as labor for plantations. These plantations produced the crops and goods that fueled trade across the ocean.
What are the original 13 colonies?
1. Virginia (1607)
2. Massachusetts (1620)
3. New Hampshire (1623)
4. Maryland (1634)
5. Connecticut (1635)
6. Rhode Island (1636)
Delaware (1638)
8. North Carolina (1663)
9. South Carolina (1663)
10. New York (1664)
11. New Jersey (1664)
12. Pennsylvania (1681)
13. Georgia (1733)
How did the colonists' experience of governing themselves help prepare them for the American Revolution?
Colonists developed experience with local self-government and increasingly expected a say in their own laws and political decisions.
Self-reliance leads to independence.
How did most American colonists feel about Great Britain during the mid-1700s, before the American Revolution?
Most remained loyal to Britain or did not care.