Exploration
Increasing wealth, sharing religion with Native peoples, and increasing the power and prestige of the empire were examples of this.
What are Reasons for European Exploration?
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Mayflower Compact, and the Virginia House of Burgesses represent this government principle.
What is Representative Government?
These settlers came to the America's seeking freedom from the religious persecution they suffered in England.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Rocky Soil, Long Winters and vast natural resources, like timber and deep harbors led these colonies to base their economies on Shipbuilding, commercial fishing, and merchant trade.
What are the New England Colonies?
This country came to the America, claimed the territory from the Mississippi River to the Great Lakes region, and established trade with the Native Americans.
Who is France?
This man from Genoa, Italy sailed for the Spanish Crown and landed in what he thought to be India in 1492.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
This represents the first example of self-government in the American colonies in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
What is 1607?
This industry was impacted by an abundance of timber, a variety of sea life, and deep harbors on the coastal areas.
What is the shipbuilding industry?
Soldiers sent from Spain to claim new lands and search for Gold were called this.
Who are Conquistadores?
Europeans were searching for this when they sailed to the Americas.
What is a water route to Asia?
This is recognized as the first representative assembly in the colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This practice allowed people to come the colonies without purchasing passage, but required them to work under contract to repay the debts of travels to the Americas.
What is indentured servitude?
What are the Southern Colonies?
This is the name that commonly refers to the main reasons for European Exploration and Colonization.
What is/are the 3 G's?
This transportation of goods and services eventually led to a pandemic among Native Peoples in the America's due to their lack of natural immunity to European diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This document represents the first written Constitution in the American colonies.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Maryland and Pennsylvania were founded for this purpose.
What is religious toleration/freedom?
This practice began due tot he demand for cash crops.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade?
This system required all colonial trade to be done with the home country, specifically Great Britain.
What is mercantilism?
This man published a book in approximately 1300 and the stories contained within are credited with being a motivation for European Exploration.
Who is Marco Polo?
Distance from England, Town Hall meetings, and the Mayflower compact are examples of reasons for this taking place in the American colonies.
What is the growth of Representative Government?
Slaves were first imported to the Americas as a labor force for which cash crop in Latin America?
What is sugarcane?
These colonies had a diverse population, had a milder climate, and typically farmed grain crops.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This country claimed the land around present-day New York and New Jersey and established the harbors as a trading center.
Who are the Dutch/Netherlands?