Southern Colonies
What is the Southern Colonies main economy?
Agriculture or farming cash crops
What is the Middle Colonies main economy?
Agriculture or farming, shipping/trade
In big cities people found jobs as tailors, blacksmiths, coopers, cobblers, printers, bakers
What did the New England people do for work?
Trade/shipping, ship building, lumber production, fishing, whaling, fur trapping
Who were the Puritans?
A religious group from England who wanted to purify or "fix" the Church of England.
What was the Maryland's Act of Toleration?
Passed by the colonies general assembly in 1649, this allowed all Christian people to practice their religion freely.
Basis for religious freedom in the United States
What is the climate and geography of the Southern Colonies?
Lots of rain, long/humid summers, short/wild winters
Flat land, fertile soil
Good for farming
What is the climate and geography of the Middle Colonies?
Long, hot summers, and cold winters
Fertile soil, lots of rain, wide rivers, big harbor
Some farming
What is the climate and geography of New England?
Long, cold winters, short summers
Rocky soil, mountainous terrain in western colonies
Short growing season, not good for farming
Who were the Pilgrims?
A religious group that came to the Americas looking for religious freedom and economic opportunity.
Who were the people that had to serve 4-7 years of service and then given a small piece of land.
Indentured Servant
They had to work for the person who paid their way to the college.
What was the religion in the Southern Colonies?
mainly Protestant from the Church of England (Anglican Church)
some Catholicism
What was the religion in the Middle Colonies?
Religious freedom with many religious backgrounds
What was the religion in the New England Colonies?
Mainly strict Puritan Christians
Who founded the Pennsylvania colony in 1681?
William Penn
Penn was a Quaker who purchased land from the Lenape tribe for the people of his colony and were able to live in peace. He made laws based on the Quaker faith.
What is the document created by the Pilgrims?
The Mayflower Compact
It was a written document of laws and guidellines the Pilgrims used to govern themselves.
Was there slavery in the Southern Colonies?
Slavery was very commmon in the Southern Colonies.
Large plantations used slaves
Were there slaves in the Middle Colonies?
Slavery existed but it was not as common as it was in the South.
Were there slaves in New England?
Yes, but it was less common than in the Southern Colonies.
Who were some of the indigenous people (Native Americans) we studied?
Powhatan, Lenape, Wampanoag
"What was the White Lion"?
The "White Lion" was the first ship to bring enslaved persons to the American colonies. It was an English privateer ship.
What were the cash crops of the Southern Colonies?
Tobacco, Indigo, Rice, Cotton
Why were the Middle Colonies the most diverse of the three colonial regions?
many different religious backgrounds
wide variety of jobs
farming and trade throughout
many jobs in large cities
What two colonies were founded by people from Massachuestts who were frustrated with the restrictive laws of the Puritans.
Connecticut and Rhode Island
Connecticut - Thomas Hooker and Reverend Samuel Stone
Rhode Island - Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson
Who was the viking or Norse explorer who with his men were the first Europeans to visit North America and landed on the coast of what is now Canada?
Leif Erikson
What was the House of Burgesses?
One of the first forms of representative government created in the colony of Virginia.
The United States of American has a representative government.