New England Colonies
The two major religious groups settled in the New England colonies.
What are Puritans and Pilgrims?
GRAINS-wheat, corns, oats, etc.
What did the middle colonies mainly grow?
The first permanent English settlement in modern day Virginia.
What is Jamestown.
The Americas, Europe, and Africa.
What are the three places involved in the triangle trade?
These included tobacco, rice, and indigo.
What were the main cash crops grown in the southern colonies?
Their reason for settlement was for religious freedom and to “purify” the Church of England.
Who were the Puritans?
Because of economic gain.
Why were the middle colonies mainly settled?
Safe haven for Catholics, passed the Act of Toleration.
What is Maryland?
The part of the Triangle trade that transported enslaved Africans to the Americas; longest part of the journey.
What is the middle passages?
These two factors saved Jamestown from dying off.
What are the House of Burgesses and Tobacco?
Fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding.
What are three major economies in the New England Colonies?
Was originally called “New Netherlands“ before being taken over by the British.
What is New York?
The founder of the colony that gave debtors a chance to start a new life.
Who was James Oglethorpe?
Raw materials such as sugar, tobacco, and cotton were sent to his region from the Americas and in return, America received manufactured goods.
What is Europe?
This colony acted as a buffer between the Spanish territory and the other English colonies; it also served as a haven for debtors.
What is Georgia?
The first colony to separate church and state and allowed all white landowners to vote.
What is Rhode Island?
The religious group that was considered radical for their time; believed men and women were equal and were the first to speak out against slavery.
Who were the Quakers?
The place where the people in Jamestown moved to after Bacon’s Rebellion and Jamestown was burned down.
What is Williamsburg, Virginia?
The economic theory that colonies exist to benefit the mother country by providing raw materials for cheap prices.
What is mercantilis?
What others called when William Penn invited all religions to live together peacefully with full religious freedom.
What was William Penn’s “Holy experiment“?
Banished from Massachusetts Bay for his "new and dangerous” ideas, he founded a colony for religious and political freedom from the Puritans. He also maintained a good relationship with the natives.
Who was Roger Williams?
In the year 1674.
What year was New York taken over by the Dutch?
The “line” or boundary that separated the Southern and Middle colonies; it separated two different ways of life.
What is the Mason Dixon Line?
It stated that the colonists could trade certain goods with only Britain.
What were the Navigation Acts?
The region of land with many rivers and coastal plains where most merchants, townsmen, and people lived and worked. Good for trade and protected from the natives.
What is tidewater?