Chapter 1
Chapter 2
Chapter 3
Chapter 4
Chapter 5
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He was a Viking who explored North America before Christopher Columbus came.
Who is Leif Ericson?
100
This was the type of colony formed by the joint-stock companies.
What is a charter company?
100
This term describes the African slaves journey to the New World.
What is the Middle Passage?
100
This was the official church in the Southern Colonies.
What is the Anglican, or Church of England?
100
This Act regulated colonial trade with other colonies and foreign nations.
What is the Navigation and Trade Acts?
200
He was a "Sea Dog that fought against the Spanish Armada.
Who is Sir Francis Drake?
200
This colony passed an Act of Toleration.
What is Maryland?
200
This group had the "power of the purse" in the colonies.
What is the legislature?
200
This religious group was supervised by commissaries sent by the Bishop of London.
What is the Anglican Church?
200
This man brought the British to victory in the French and Indian War.
Who is William Pitt?
300
The first permanent British colony in the new world was named after him.
Who is James I?
300
This Lord Baltimore established a settlement for Catholics.
Who was Cecilius Calvert?
300
This conflict resulted in the burning of Jamestown.
What is Bacon's Rebellion?
300
People in early America learned Greek, Latin, and natural philosophy in these schools.
What are grammar schools?
300
This was Edward Braddock's most lasting contribution during the French and Indian War.
What is building a road?
400
These were the goals of France, Spain, and England when they explored the Americas.
What is Spain - riches, conversion of natives to Catholicism, France - furs and trade England - land, settlements, new colonies?
400
These characteristics made the middle colonies different from the other colonies.
What is the fact they were founded by several nationalities, several religious groups, and learned how to cooperate and get along faster than the other colonies?
400
This is how slavery developed and spread in the colonies.
What is the need for cheap labor on plantations, and a thriving triangular trade between England, the Americas, and Africa?
400
This was how religious life in the Southern Colonies differed from those in New England.
What is in New England their religion permeated everything, education, law making, etc. It was much more personal. The churches became known as Congregationalist because they believed the people should have a say in the church policies. In the south, the Anglican Church was the official church. It was less personal and the Congregationalists. The Anglican church was regulated by the Bishop of London and was very ritualistic.
400
This is why the British marched on Lexington and Concord.
What is the British hoped to destroy a cache of arms and ammunition and capture John Hancock and Samuel Adams?
500
This is why the first few years at Jamestown were difficult.
What is disease, Indian attacks, famine, and the refusal of the nobles to work, and the refusal of the common man to support them?
500
These four colonies came out of Massachusetts for these reasons, allowing Massachusetts to be called the "Mother of Colonies".
What is New Hampshire - overcrowding, Connecticut - overcrowding, Maine - political advantage, and Rhode Island - Roger Williams wanted separation of church and state?
500
These are the natural resources of each of the three sections (New England, Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies), and how it affected the development of each.
What is New England had shallow rocky soil, little flat farmland, and short growing seasons, so they turned to fishing and ship building. The Middle Colonies had longer growing seasons, richer soil, and plenty of flat farm land, so they grew wheat, oats, corn, and became America's "Bread Basket." They also had many navigable rivers which aided their development. The Southern Colonies had long growing seasons, rich soil, and plenty of flat farmland. This led them to grow cash crops like cotton, rice, and indigo.
500
This is how children were educated in all three colonies.
What is in New England they believed all children should be educated so they could be good Christians and good citizens. Most towns had school and laws were passed to insure all children could go to school. In the South, only the wealthy hired tutors for their children. Education was considered to be a private matter. Some government officials said that educated people were trouble makers. In the Middle colonies there were some schools and some tutors were hired. It was a mix of the other two.
500
This is how British policies changed after the French and Indian War.
What is the British decided to crack down on the colonies because they had only halfheartedly supported the British in the War and had even traded with the French?
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