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100

Name the year.

-arrival of the Pilgrims and signing of Mayflower Compact, significant because this represented the establishment of self-government in the colonies.

1620

100

Who founded Pennsylvania?

William Penn

100

Name two examples of cash crops.

Cotton, tobacco, indigo

100

What are the three G's? (What were the three main reasons for exploration)

God, Glory and Gold

100

Give an example of a primary source.

Ex. Journal entry, newspaper article from the time period, video footage, interview, etc.

200

Name the colony-

founded as a safe haven for persecuted Catholics from England.

Maryland

200

Which region had the following characteristics?

  • Physical Characteristics – Rich soil; broad, deep rivers; more natural ports; river valleys, mild winters, raw materials, Atlantic Ocean, New York City has a natural harbor
  • Human Characteristics – large farms, logging, fishing, shipbuilding industries; religiously more diverse (Quakers, Catholics) and more tolerant; small coastal towns; major cities of New York and Philadelphia

Middle Colonies

200

In what year was Jamestown founded?

1607

200

Who is this?

Is credited with helping John Smith and the European settlers in Virginia, yet accounts of her contacts with the settlers at Jamestown vary.

Pocahontas

200

Which region has the following characteristics?

  • Physical Characteristics – Atlantic Ocean, subsistence farming, poor soil, cold climate, forest. Boston and Portland have natural harbors
  • Human Characteristics – logging, fishing, shipbuilding industries; town meetings, representative government, small coastal towns, predominately Puritan; major city Boston

New England Colonies

300

Who is this?

Led Bible studies which brought into question Puritan theology and divided the community in Boston. She was brought to trial, convicted, and banished from the colony.  She and her supporters resettled in Portsmouth, Rhode Island, and she later moved to New York City.

Anne Hutchinson

300

Name the middle colonies.

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware

300

What was the first representative assembly in the colonies?

Virginia House of Burgesses

300

Name this 'event'.

a revivalist movement where preachers such as Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield addressed large crowds of people. These preachers spoke to groups who were already religious arguing that people could gain salvation by repenting and could study the Bible for themselves. The movement emphasized the equality of believers and advocated for religious freedom and toleration.

The First Great Awakening

300

What is this called?

-economic policy where colonies serve as a source of raw materials to increase the wealth and maintain a favorable balance of trade for the “mother” country

mercantilism

400

What was the first written constitution in the colonies?

The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

400

Who originally settled NY?

Dutch (Netherlands)

400

What was the purpose of founding Georgia?

A place for debtors to be sent

400

Name this concept-

-developed between the colonies, England, West Africa, and West Indies as enslaved people were exchanged in the colonies for goods, including the cash crops that enslaved people worked to cultivate.

Triangular Trade

400

What religious group primarily settled Massachusetts?

Pilgrims

500

Who founded the Massachusetts Bay Colony?

John Winthrop

500

What religious group primarily settled Pennsylvania?

Quakers

500

Who was credited with developing indigo as a cash crop first on her family’s plantation in South Carolina and then throughout the South?

Eliza Lucas Pinckney

500

What is a charter?

a contract given to someone to establish a colony

500

Name all thirteen colonies.

  • Connecticut 
  • Delaware 
  • Georgia 
  • Maryland 
  • Massachusetts (included Maine)
  • New Jersey 
  • New York 
  • New Hampshire 
  • North Carolina 
  • Pennsylvania 
  • Rhode Island 
  • South Carolina
  • Virginia 
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