Random Things 1
This Act states that the 13 colonies were only allowed to trade with their mother country, England.
Navigation Acts
What was a significant accomplishment of the Jamestown colony?
They were the first PERMANENT English colony in the New world
Many people who came to the New World chose to do so for this reason.
Religious Freedom
The Quakers founded this colony as a haven for religious freedom.
Pennsylvania
Long warm summers, mild cool winters
Southern
These are examples of what type of resistance to slavery?
Running away
Rebellion
Overt Resistance
John Rolfe brought this future cash crop to Jamestown and helped them economically prosper.
Tobacco
The French largely settled in the middle of the US around the Mississippi River. Why?
They wished to create a fur trading empire.
This group came to the colonies to escape religious persecution and founded Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Puritans
Economy: Fishing, whaling, and shipping
New England
These are examples of what type of resistance to slavery?
faking sick
breaking tools
singing songs
working slowly
passive resistance
This man helped the Pilgrims by translating for them and teaching them how to farm in Plymouth Colony.
Squanto
What are the three g's that motivated the Spanish to colonize the New World?
Gold, God, and Glory
The original 13 colonies were controlled by what country?
England
Breadbasket
Middle
The First Great Awakening was a rebirth of what in the colonies?
Religion
When Massachusetts Bay Colony began, only this group had the power to vote.
Land owning Puritan Men
The first settlers at Jamestown did not arrive for religious purposes, but for this reason.
To find gold
This colony eventually began as New Netherland, and was founded to be a trading center. However, it was renamed this when the English took control of the area.
New York
Plantation Economics
Southern
This is the name for the portion of the Triangular Trade Route by which slaves were transported from Africa to America
The Middle Passage.
Massachusetts Bay Colony had this style of government. It was based upon their religious practices.
This colony was founded by James Oglethorpe as a haven for debtors and a buffer to Spanish Florida.
Georgia
This geographic feature borders the 13 colonies on their western boundary
Appalachian Mountains
Rocky Soil that is very thin