Exploration
Colonization
Colonies
Colonial Government
Policies
100

Spain, Britain, and France

What are the 3 groups that explored the new world?

100

Jamestown, VA

What is the first established colony?

100

Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire

What are the New England Colonies?

100

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on the Mayflower and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

What is the Mayflower Compact?

100

an economic system to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests

What is mercantilism?
200

Fur trade

What is the reason for French exploration?

200

The Pilgrims

Which was a group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands?

200

New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

What are the New England Colonies?
200

first written constitution in America

What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

200

required all goods imported into Britain or the colonies to be shipped in British vessels

What is the Navigation Act of 1660?

300

To establish Catholic missions and expand religion across their colonies

What is the reason for Spanish Exploration?

300

Plymouth, MA

What is the location of where the pilgrims first landed?
300

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

What are the Southern Colonies?

300

1619 - the first legislative body in colonial America.

What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?

300

A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

What is the Triangular Trade?

400

Organized economic ventures and sought opportunities for religious freedom

Reasons for Britain exploration?

400

Good are exported

What is the effect of the Mid-Atlantic Colonies depending on farming, and having rich, fertile soil?

400

New England Colonies economic charactertistics

Which colonies are based on shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small-scale subsistence farming, and, eventually, manufacturing?

400

less supervision over the colonies as long as they kept economic loyalty, which made for a strong tradition of self-government

What was salutary neglect?

400

a time of enlightenment, when people started to repent and rededicate themselves to God.

What is the Frist Great Awakening?

500

Sea route to Asia

What was the initial reason for exploring the Americas?

500

Lumber is exported

What was the effect of the New England colonies depending on shipbuilding and having excellent harbors?

500

Farmers grew cash crops, there were industries such as lumber and iron mills, and New York and Philadelphia were large trading centers.

What were the economic characteristics of the Southern Colonies?

500

American Colonists established their own representative institutions

What was the outcome of colonies having distance between themselves in Great Britain, the need for lawmaking structure and traditional rights of Englishmen?

500

Prevented colonists from trading with most other nations

How did mercantilist policies create tension between Great Britain and the colonies?

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