Religion
The main religion of the original American Colonies.
What is Christianity?
People settled in New England for this reason.
What is freedom of religion?
The Middle Colonies were more what than the other colonies?
What is diverse?
The main economic activities of the Southern Colonies.
What is farming for cash crops?
A crop such as tobacco that was raised in large quantities and sold for a profit.
What is a cash crop?
This group wanted to completely separate from the Church of England.
Who are the Separatists?
Farming in New England wasn't very successful because of this?
What is rocky land and cold climate?
The main economic activities of the Middle Colonies.
What are farming, lumbering, and shipbuilding?
Common cash crop in the Southern Colonies.
What is tobacco?
Ruled by the people by citizens who elect representatives.
What is democratic?
This was the first group of people who left England to pursue freedom of religion.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The main economic activities of New England.
What are fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, and trade?
People beside the British who moved to the Middle Colonies.
Plantation owners relied on these two things to farm their land.
What are indentured servants and slaves?
A formal document issued by the king that outlines the boundaries of a colony and says how it will be governed.
What is a charter?
This group wanted to purify their religion because they thought the Church of England was "too Catholic".
Who are the Puritans?
Colonies in New England.
What are Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire?
They founded the colony of Pennsylvania to avoid religious persecution.
Who are the Quakers?
The colonies of the Southern region.
What are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
An agreement that the Pilgrims wrote saying how they would govern themselves in the colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Pilgrims wanted to be free of the Church of England, they were also known to be this.
What are Separatists?
The two main influences in the New England colonies.
What are religion and geography?
The middle colonies.
What are New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware?
The landscape and climate of the Southern Colonies?
What are rivers and wetlands, and hot and wet climate?
An economic policy where nations try to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies.
What is mercantilism.