Exploration
Name the three countries responsible for the exploration period in the New World.
What is England (Great Britain), France and Spain
The soil is rocky, the winters are long and there are many mature trees in the ________________________________ colonies
What is New England
What does the acronym RIT stand for when referring to cash crops? ___________
What is Rice, Indigo and Tobacco
The Virginia House of Burgesses was the colonies first ____________ body.
What is legislative
Plymouth was a colony founded in 1620 and based on escaping _________________________ persecution.
What is religious
Name the three motives for European exploration
What is: to increase wealth (gold) to spread Christianity (God) to expand empires (glory)
The soil was moderately fertile and there were many grain farms in the ______________________ colonies.
What is the Middle Colonies
Large-scale southern farms that relied heavily on slave labor were called ________________.
What is plantations
The Mayflower Compact was significant because it established a form of _________________________based on a social contract.
What is representative (self) government
The Exploration Era began due to European countries searching for a more direct trade route to what continent?
What is Asia
The nickname for the Middle Colonies was the "___________________" Colonies.
What is Bread-Basket
What was the purpose of the Magna Carta?
What is to limit the power of the King
Which colony was the first permanent English colony and was established in 1607?
What is Jamestown, Virginia
What is the name given to Spanish soldier explorers that were sent to the New World?
What are conquistadors
The land was ideal for planting large crops and the grow season was very long in the ______________________ colonies.
What is the Southern
Which colonial region made most of their money off of small-scale farming and grain/wheat products?
What is Middle Colonies
What reason caused American colonists to begin to practice self-government?
What is distance from Britain OR salutary neglect
Who was the Quaker and founder of Pennsylvania?
Who is William Penn
Slaves from West Africa were shipped to the Americas in what is known as the ____________________trade.
What is the triangle trade OR Transatlantic Slave Trade
Which Southern colony was seen as a "buffer" to protect the other colonies from Spanish-owned Florida?
What is Georgia
The New England Colonies relied heavily on trade due to their close proximity to the coast and their large natural ____________.
What is harbors
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut are known as the first written __________________ in the colonies.
What is constitution
Name the two individuals who founded Rhode Island as a colony that practiced religious toleration.
Who is Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams