Reasons for Exploration
The "3 Gs" that motivated Spanish exploration.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
Signed in 1620, it was the first document to establish self-government and majority-rule laws in the New World.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The primary motivation for settling the New England colonies.
What is religious freedom?
The Nickname given to the Middle Colonies due to their production of grains and livestock.
What is the "Breadbasket" colonies?
The year Christopher Columbus first made landfall in the Americas.
What is 1492?
The geographic feature French explorers searched for to find a faster, cheapter route to Asia.
What is the Northwest Passage?
The year the Virginia House of Burgesses first met as the first colonial assembly of elected representatives.
What is 1619?
The colony founded by Puritans with the goal of creating an ideal Christian community.
What is Massachusetts Bay Colony?
The anti-slavery, pacifist group led by William Penn that settled Pennsylvania.
Who are the Quakers?
The year Jamestown was established as the first permanent English settlement in North America.
What is 1607?
The economic system where the American Colonies supplied raw materials to England and were forced to buy back finished products.
What is Mercantilism?
The document created by Thomas Hooker that expanded voting rights beyond church members in its colony.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Physical characteristics of New England that led to subsistence farming rather than large plantations.
What are cold climates, harsh winters, and rocky soil?
The colony founded by James Oglethorpe as a buffer zone and a place for English debtors to start over.
What is Georgia?
The failed early colony where " CROATOAN" was found carved into a fence post.
What is Roanoke?
The three-part exchange of food, materials, technology, ideas, and diseases between the Old and New Worlds.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
The English legal document that first limited the power of the King.
What is the Magna Carta?
Two founders of Rhode Island who established the colony on principles of religious tolerance and separation of chruch and state.
Who are Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson?
The colony founded by Lord Baltimore as a safe haven for Catholics.
What is Maryland?
The Jamestown colonist who introduced tobacco trade, turning it into a major cash crop.
Who is John Rolfe?
The European nation that established a profitable beaver fur trade with Native Americans in North America.
What is France?
The Enlightenment philosopher who wrote that government is a social contract responsible for protecting unalienable rights.
Who is John Locke?
Two primary manufacturing or trade industries in the New England economy besides fishing and whaling.
Four major cash crops grown on plantations in the Southern Colonies.
What are tobacco, rice indigo, and cotton?
The year the first African slaves were brought to the English colonies, launching the Trans-Atlantic trade network.
What is 1619?