The 3 G's
This "G" was the reason behind Columbus' exploration.
What is Glory?
The Jamestown settlement was the first permanent settlement because the colonists were able to turn this into a cash crop.
What is tobacco?
Established by William Penn as a haven for the pacifist Quakers and religious tolerance was this Middle Colony.
What is Pennsylvania?
Fishing and fur trade were established by this European country in the Americas.
What is France?
This demographic of people were the only people who could vote in the colonies.
Who are white, male landowners?
This "G" was the reason the Pilgrims left England on the Mayflower and settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts.
What is God?
In the Carolinas, this brilliant blue plant, used for dye, was the labor intensive cash crop export.
What is indigo?
This New England colony was established by the Puritans fleeing England to escape religious persecution.
What is Massachusetts Bay?
Spicy! This was the INITIAL reason many European explorers sailed to the Americas.
What is to find new trade routes to Asia?
This Compact was signed by Pilgrims on their way to the Americas to establish a social contract before they even got off the ship.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This "G" as a motivation may have been the fatal flaw for Roanoke.
What is Gold?
The influx of demand for cash crops in the Southern Colonies led to an increase for the need of enslaved labor. This increased the amount of enslaved Africans captured and forced to travel this.
What is the Middle Passage?
In this region of the colonies, the use of enslaved labor was most common.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This future global trade hub was initially settled by the Dutch and named New Netherland. It's Atlantic Ocean access, natural harbors and position on waterways made it appealing to England and it was taken and renamed this.
What is New York?
This assembly legislature was the first example of representative government in the colonies although the only people that were allowed to vote were White, landowning men.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The New England Colonies all have in common this same motivation for being established.
What is God?
The Middle Colonies were known as this because of their abundance of wheat and grain as a cash crop export.
What is the Breadbasket Colonies?
This colony was founded for the purpose of serving as a barrier between Spanish Florida and the rest of the colonies.
What is the Georgia colony (Southern colonies)?
The Toleration Act of 1649 secured religious freedom for Catholics, Anglicans, Puritans, and other Christian settlers in the colony named this.
What is Maryland?
The Fundamental Order of this colony was the first written constitution in the Americas providing for election of representatives. The Fundamental Orders established a court system, elections, and term limits for representatives. It contributed to the tradition of self-government in America and promoted democratic ideals.
What is Connecticut?
Video Clue: The Virginia Company, Jamestown and ultimately, the Virginia Colony were founded for this reason.
What is Gold?
The New England colonies were too cold and rocky to establish any cash crops. Instead, colonists did this type of farming to grow only what they needed to feed their families, with very little left over to sell.
What is subsistence farming?
English Catholics seeking religious freedom helped establish this Southern Colony in the 1630s.
What is Maryland?
The Proclamation of 1763 was issued by the British government after the French and Indian War to avoid further conflict with Native Americans in the newly acquired territories. It forbade colonists from this
What is settling west of the Appalachian Mountains?
These Acts, blocking the colonies ability to trade with any other countries outside of England was a crucial step in moving the colonists away from England and closer to declaring war and independence.
What are the Navigation Acts?