British Colonial Regions
The people in these colonies were very spread out and known for agriculture.
What are some characteristics of the south colonies ?
The primary reason an individual immigrated to New England.
What is religious freedom?
Acts by parliament restricting colonial trade to England and decreasing dependence on foreign imported goods.
What are the Navigation Acts?
3 cash crop products that extensively used slave labor.
What is tobacco, rice, and cotton?
Policy stating the colonies exist to enrich the mother country.
What is Mercantilism?
They are the bread colonies, we aren’t super tight knit nor super spread out.
What are some characteristics of the middle colonies?
Nickname for Quakers in Pennsylvania
What is the “Society of Friends”?
The largest group/ethnicity of non-English settlers to settle in the English Colonies in this period.
What is German?
The route in which slaves arrived from Africa in.
What is the Middle Passage?
British avoided enforcing strict parliament laws, as long as the colonies remained loyal to the government.
What is Salutary Neglect?
They manufactured, suffered from the cold, they were the extremes in religion.
What are some characteristics of the northern colonies?
Person responsible for beginning the Protestant Reformation?
Who is Martin Luther King?
2-3 causes of colonial rebellion:
Rich east vs poor south, equality/freedom, opportunity
Required to serve/work for a set number of years until they were freed.
Who are Indentured Servants?
These 2 things were powerful entities of which were decisively separated to protect the people's right to freedom of faith.
What are State and Church?
He claimed that the Puritans should, “build a city upon a hill,” and became governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1630.
Who is John Winthrop?
She questioned puritan preachings in a strictly religious New England, banishing her from the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Who was Anne Hutchinson?
Slaves attempt to get to Spanish FL where they were promised freedom.
What is the Stono Uprising?
A trade route starting in England to Africa then to the Colonies and back.
What is the Triangular Trade?
Royal: Leader elected by the crown
Self-Governing: Leader elected by the people
Proprietor: Leader selected by the proprietors
What are the 3 types of colonial governors?
Became the most liberal colony, religiously free and were known for being stubbornly independent.
What is Rhode Island?
The people of the colonies were greatly unified religiously. This would then set them up for unity in the Revolution.
What is the Great Awakening?
New England colonists wiped out a tribe in the 1630s due to fighting over land and fur trade control.
What is the Pequot War?
Main event which caused the shift from indentured servitude to slavery.
What is Bacon’s Rebellion?
Upper House: Consisted of the council and a colonial governor
Lower House: Representative Assembly voted by the people
What was the Two-House Legislative Body?