Representative Government
This social contract established the first self-government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Middle Colonies earned this nickname for growing lots of grains.
What is the Bread Basket?
This cash crop led to the survival of Jamestown.
What is tobacco?
This colony was founded by Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams for religious toleration.
What is Rhode Island?
Wrote the Mayflower Compact and settled in Plymouth for religious freedom.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The distance of the king led to the growth of representative government in the colonies through this. (revisit I don't like how this is worded)
What is Salutary Neglect?
The reasons New England was able to go fishing and lumbering.
What are dense forests and harbors?
The French settled in the New World for this reason.
What is the Fur Trade?
The Southern colonies, like Virginia, North Carolina, and South Carolina, were able to grow cash crops due to these factors.
What are long growing seasons, fertile soil, warm climate?
This man founded the colony of Pennsylvania for Quakers.
Who is William Penn?
This Enlightenment thinker inspired Separation of Powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
This country sought to convert Native Americans through missions.
Who is Spain?
This colony was founded for religious freedom for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
This religious group settled in Pennsylvania was AGAINST slavery.
Who are the Quakers?
The significance of the Virginia House of Burgesses.
What is the first representative legislature in the colonies?
The factor that led to the growth of the Plantation system.
English groups like the Puritans and Pilgrims came to the New World for what reason?
Religious Freedom
This New England colony was founded by Thomas Hooker.
What is Connecticut?
This group settled in Massachusetts and wanted to purify the Church of England. They ended up kicking out dissenters from the colony.
Who are the Puritans?
Enlightenment thinker William Blackstone contributed to the growth of representative government with THIS idea.
What is Checks and Balances?
Colonial economy where the Mother Country controls all trade.
What is mercantilism?
What were the European countries originally looking for when they discovered the New World?
What is a trade route to Asia/The Northwest Passage?
This Southern colony was founded by James Oglethorpe as a barrier to Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
After being kicked out of Massachusetts, this man founded the colony of Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?