13 Colonies
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Which region's colonist were exclusively searching for religious freedom?
What are the New England colonies?
Who founded Connecticut?
Thomas Hooker
Last colony to be settled
What is Georgia?
religious freedom
Who founded Pennsylvania?
Who is William Penn
What is a cash crop
This region's economy depended on large plantations that grew cotton, indigo, and tobacco.
What is the southern region also known as the southern colonies?
An economic system where colonies provide raw materials and markets for the mother country.
What is mercantilism
The first permanent English colony in the Americas
What is Jamestown?
What company established Jamestown?
What is the Virginia Company- a joint stock company
The Quakers, Puritans, and Catholics wanted to establish __________ __________ in the new colonies.
What is religious freedom?
First English colony in America that mysteriously vanished
What is Roanoke Island, or The Lost Colony?
Settlers in New England who were known for their devout faith and strict religious laws
Puritans
What colony is New York in?
What are the middle colonies
This crop helped save Jamestown.
tobacco
This group believed in the town meeting system where each community should rule itself.
Who are the Puritans?
A holiday started by celebrating success at the Plymouth Colony.
What is Thanksgiving?
These colonies are part of what region?
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island
The New England Colonies.
Pennsylvania was mainly settled by what religious group?
Who are the Quakers?
This government document was set up by the Pilgrims to set up rules and regulations.
What is the Mayflower Compact
Official paper where the rights are given by a government to a person, a group, or a business.
What is a charter?
Why was Jamestown originally founded?
to make profit
Which colony was founded as a buffer between the Carolinas and Spanish Florida?
Georgia
These colonies are part of what region? New York, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New Jersey
The Middle Colonies.
Which colony had a greater diversity of people?
What are the middle colonies
Britain’s policy of loosely enforcing colonial laws.
Salutary Neglect
The forced voyage of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
What was the Middle Passage
Which country profited from fur trade and made good friends with the Native Americans?
Of the 3 colonies attempted by England, 1 failed and 2 were successful. What are the 2 that were successful?
Jamestown and Plymouth
What year was Jamestown founded?
1607
What colony gained economic wealth by whaling, shipbuilding and lumber?
What are the New England Colonies?
What 2 things saved Jamestown Colony?
Tobacco and the rule: If you don't work, you don't eat.
A person who worked for a set number of years in exchange for passage to America.
What is an indentured servant
Who was a major leader of Massachusetts Bay?
Who is John Winthrop
2 PART QUESTION
Concerning the 13 Colonies, how many regions are they? Name them.
3: New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies
What was the number one difference between the Puritans and Pilgrims?
The Pilgrims wanted complete separation from the Church of England, and the Puritans did not.
Which of the 3 colonies had harsh winters and a short growing season?
What are the New England colonies?
A government in which citizens elect people to make decisions for them.
What is representative government
The group of people believed in equality for all people
Who are the Quakers?
The Mayflower Compact was a written set of laws for organizing the Plymouth Colony. It was written by both Pilgrims and others aboard the Mayflower with this being priority. On what principle did they write the laws?
It was written for the "Good of the Colony"
Who founded Georgia?
James Olgethorpe
Who founded Rhode Island?
Roger Williams & Anne Hutchinson
People governing themselves through their own elected representatives.
What is self-government
A government based on religious authority or beliefs.
what is a theocracy
What was the main purpose of colonies under mercantilism?
To benefit the mother country economically
What did John Winthrop mean by a "city upon a hill"?
The colony should serve as an example of a godly colony
Who was in control of the Colonies and Colonists in the New World?
England
Why were the settlements built by rivers or along the coast?
It served as a means of transportation and trade.
Why did people in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies adapt different ways of life?
The regions had different geographies and resources
The main type of Christianity in the New England colonies?
What is the Puritans
Which colony is the House of Burgesses associated with?
The Virginia Colony
Who thought that the native Americans deserved fair pay for their land?
Who is Roger Williams
What was one original purpose of Georgia?
To provide an opportunity for debtors and the poor
What was Benjamin Franklin's Albany Plan of Union?
A proposal for the colonies to unite for common defense.