Southern Colonies
Jamestown was founded in this colony in 1607
What is Virginia?
This group of English Separatists founded Plymouth in 1620.
What are Pilgrims?
Because of their large grain production, the Middle Colonies earned this nickname.
What are the Breadbasket Colonies?
This economic idea held that colonial trade and resources should strengthen the British Empire.
What is mercantilism?
These TWO European empires competed for territory, trade, and influence in North America.
What are Britain and France?
These problems threatened Jamestown's survival. (name two)
What are food shortages, disease, environmental problems, leadership problems, and difficult relations?
These are the reasons why large-scale cash-crop farming is less suited to New England.
What is a colder climate, a shorter growing season, and rockier soil?
These FOUR colonies made up the Middle Colonies.
What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware?
These British laws regulated colonial commerce within the empire.
What are the Navigation Acts?
This river valley became a major area of imperial competition.
What is the Ohio River Valley?
This crop became profitable in Virginia and changed the colony's economy
What is tobacco?
This agreement creates a government and follows laws for the common good.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This Quaker proprietor was connected with Pennsylvania.
Who was William Penn?
This term describes Britain's long periods of loose enforcement that allowed colonists to manage many local affairs.
What is salutary neglect?
This North American war between Britain and France lasted from 1754 to 1763.
What is the French and Indian War?
Complete and explain the chain: Tobacco → ___ → ___ → ___
Profit → Land → Labor. Tobacco profits encouraged the expansion of land and increased demand for labor.
Coastline + forests + harbors lead to this type of economy
What is a maritime economy?
Accept fishing, shipping, shipbuilding, timber, or Atlantic trade if the student explains the connection.
These geographic features connected farms with markets and helped cities such as New York and Philadelphia become commercial centers.
What are rivers and Atlantic ports?
Salutary neglect helped colonists develop stronger habits and expectations of this.
What is local self-government?
Britain won the French and Indian War but was left with these TWO major problems.
What are major war expenses and a larger empire to administer and defend?
This early Virginia assembly was important because it gave colonists experience with representative government.
What is the House of Burgesses?
These local gatherings allowed eligible voters to make community decisions and were an example of colonial self-government.
What are town meetings?
Name TWO geographic features that helped the Middle Colonies build a strong economy and explain what each one did.
fertile soil → grain farming; moderate climate → agriculture; rivers → transportation/trade; Atlantic ports → shipping/trade.
Colonists developed self-government, but political power and legal freedom were not shared equally. This phrase describes that contradiction.
What is unequal freedom?
Indigenous nations did not simply belong to one side. They made alliances based on these kinds of interests.
What are security, trade, territory, and political interests?