Colonies
The Virginia Company settled here in this year to create the first permanent English settlement in the New World
What is Jamestown in 1607?
“Consent of the governed” was the foundation of this important document, written in 1620.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Established a colonial empire along the Atlantic Coast of North America
England
South Carolina and North Carolina belong to this region of the 13 Colonies
What is the Southern Colonies
Journey slaves were forced to take to colonies in the New World
What is Middle Passage?
The Pilgrims/Puritans founded this colony…
Massachusetts
What document is known as the first written constitution in the New World?
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut.
France’s motive for exploration was...
Fur Trade with Native Americans.
Massachusetts, Rhode Island and New Hampshire belong to this colonial region.
New England Colonies
What was the triangular trade?
A system of trade routes between Africa, Europe, and the Americas
Thomas Hooker founded which colony, and for what reason?
Connecticut (Social) religious freedom.
Colonists elected people to this body of government that was the first representative assembly in America.
Virginia House of Burgesses
Spain’s motives for exploration were…
Gold(Economic), Glory(Grow Empire), and God(Spread Christianity)
Maryland is located in this colonial region.
The Southern Region
Agriculture is not a source of this colonial region’s economy.
The New England Region
Lord Baltimore founded this colony for religious freedom.
Maryland
What were the English Bill of Rights?
A constitutional monarchy in England.
Where did England mainly settle in the New World?
The Atlantic Coast (The East Coast)
This system of free labor was brought to the British Colonies to work on these plantations.
Who are slaves
The term that refers to the nickname for grains and wheat produced in this colonial region.
What is the “breadbasket region” of the Middle Colonies region?
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams escaped religious persecution in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, and founded what colony?
What is Rhode Island?
This document was the order of government written by this person in 1639.
Who is Thomas Hooker, Author of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Where did France mainly settle in the New World?
The Great Lakes Region/Central-North Americas going into Canada.
This region has extreme winters and rocky soil.
What is the New England Region?
The plantation system is the foundation of this colonial region’s economy.
The Southern Colonies Region
This religious group found a safe haven in the “woods” colony.
What are the Quakers in Pennsylvania (Founded by William Penn)
This assembly first met in Jamestown Church in 1619.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Where did Spain mainly settle in the New World?
South America.
This colonial region's climate was very hot, humid, with year-round growing seasons.
What is the Southern Colonies climate?
The founder of the Pennsylvania colony also has his picture used for this company
Quaker Oats
This was the last of the 13 colonies and was founded by James Oglethorp as a "safe haven" for debtors.
What is Georgia?
These 3 historical examples strongly influenced the early development of Representative Government in America.
What is the Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, and Virginia House of Burgesses?
European powers took this route because they no longer wanted to travel thousands of miles across land to trade with East Asia.
What is The Northwest Passage? (Westward Route to Asia)
The climate of this region is warmer with more mild summers and winters.
What is the Middle Colonies?
A person who grew up as a lumberjack cutting down trees most likely lived in this colonial region to produce this raw material.
What is producing timber in the New England colonial region?