European Exploration & Colonization
Spain explored the New World mainly for this reason.
What is gold
This year Jamestown was founded.
What is 1607?
The Pilgrims came to America for this reason.
What is religious freedom?
The New England colonies’ rocky soil and cold climate led to this type of economy.
What is fishing, shipbuilding, and trade?
The first representative assembly in the colonies in 1619 was called this.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
France explored the New World mainly for this economic activity.
What is the fur trade?
This cash crop helped Jamestown become profitable.
What is tobacco?
The Pilgrims signed this agreement in 1620, the first example of self-government in the colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The Middle Colonies were known as the “breadbasket” because they grew these.
What are grains/wheat?
The Mayflower Compact is important because it established this principle or type of government.
What is self-government?
Britain explored the New World to gain this, in addition to economic opportunities.
What is religious freedom?
This man helped Jamestown survive by enforcing the rule “He who works not, eats not.”
Who is John Smith?
An agreement among the people about the rules that will define their government
Social Contract
The Southern Colonies had a warm climate and fertile soil, leading to this economic system.
What are plantations/cash crops?
When people elect officials to make laws for society
Representative Government
European nations searched for this water route to Asia that did not exist.
What is the Northwest Passage?
This early form of government was created in Jamestown in 1619. It was the first elected assembly in the 13 Colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
The Pilgrims landed here, though they had planned to go to Virginia.
What is Massachusetts?
This geographic feature along the coast helped cities like Boston and New York grow as trade centers.
What are natural harbors?
Colonists created assemblies and town meetings because of this distance from England.
What is salutary neglect/being far from England?
These are the 3 main reasons (E, S, P) that motivated European colonization.
What are economic, social, and political reasons?
Jamestown settlers faced this deadly problem during their first years, causing many to die.
What is starvation/disease?
This year the Pilgrims founded Plymouth.
What is 1620?
This natural border limited the colonists expansion westward.
What are the Appalachian Mountains.
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (1639) are significant because they are considered the first example of this in the colonies.
What is a written constitution?