Age of Exploration
What three motivations are often used to describe European exploration?
God, Glory, gold
Who sailed west across the Atlantic in 1492 believing he could reach Asia?
Christopher Columbus
What were the three major regions of the 13 English Colonies?
New England, Middle, and Southern
What crop helped Jamestown become economically successful?
Tobacco
What group founded Plymouth?
Pilgrims
Why were Europeans interested in an all-water route to Asia?
For spices such as pepper, cinnamon and nutmeg
Who established a direct sea route from Europe to India?
Vasco da Gama
Who are Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
What was the Headright System?
50 acres of land given to settlers, often for bringing workers to colonies
What was the difference between Old Lights and New Lights in the Great Awakening?
Old- Traditional religious practices
New-Revival preaching, emotional sermons
What technological improvements made long-distance ocean exploration easier?
Navigation tools such as the compass, astrolabe, sextant and ships like the caravel
Who recognized that the lands Columbus encountered were part of a previously unknown continent?
Amerigo Vespucci
Identify the following:
Region: Shipbuilding - Region: Plantations - Region: Breadbasket
New England, Southern, Middle
What was an indentured servant?
A person agreeing to work (4-7 years) in exchange for paid passage to 13 Colonies
How were North and South Carolina different?
North-Dissenters, Pirates, naval stores, tobacco
South- Wealthy aristocrats, rice, indigo
What line and treaty divided newly explored territories between Spain and Portugal?
Who became the first European to see the Pacific Ocean from the Americas?
Vasco Nunez de Balboa?
Maryland & Pennsylvania
Why was education especially important in the New England colonies?
Colonists in New England wanted their children to learn to read the Bible
What were the causes and effects of Bacon's Rebellion?
Causes- Tobacco, lack of land, taxes, no govt. help
Effects-Conflict w/ Natives and wealthy planters, need for slave labor
Spanish Motive:
French Motive:
English Motive
Spain: conquest, gold, silver, Christianity, slavery
French: fur trade, fishing, relations w/ Natives
English: settlements, farming, religion, cash crops
Why was the voyage of Ferdinand Magellan historically significant even though he did not survive?
He proved the Earth can be circumnavigated.
New York - Georgia - South Carolina - Massachusetts
How did labor systems contribute to the growth of the Southern Colonies?
Plantation agriculture depended on large amounts of labor, first indentured servants then enslaved Africans to produce cash crops
What were the causes and effects of Bacon's Rebellion?
Causes- Tobacco, lack of land, taxes, no govt. help
Effects-Conflict w/ Natives and wealthy planters, need for slave labor