Exploration
What are the three reasons Europeans explored?
Gold, God, Glory
_____ required the colonists to trade with only Great Britain.
Mercantilism
What were the primary crops grown? (Provide 3 examples)
Oats, wheat, grain
Jamestown, Virginia
What is representative government?
The people get to choose their leaders
Explorers were looking for a water route through North America to Asia called -
Northwest Passage
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson discovered __ to escape ___.
Rhode Island, religious persecution
Describe the soil and weather in the colony.
Good soil and weather for growing
Jamestown was established for what type of reason?
Economic
This was the cause for representative government -
The distance between the colonies and Great Britain
Spain controlled these three future states during the Exploration era -
California, Texas, Florida
Describe the soil, weather, and geography.
Rocky soil, cold winters, natural harbors
This group was led by William Penn
Quakers
Maryland was founded for ___ to ____.
Catholics, escape religious persecution
This was a social contract for the Pilgrims and the first example of self-government.
Mayflower Compact
This country made money in the New World through the fur trade -
France
Plymouth colony was founded by Pilgrims to -
escape religious persecution
The Quakers settled in -
Pennsylvania
This means "large farms" and what was grown here?
Plantations, cash crops (cotton, tobacco, indigo)
This was the first written constitution in the colonies
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Spanish Catholics tried to convert Natives by -
Building missions (churches)
Provide three examples of how the colonists made money.
Shipbuilding, fishing, lumber, trading
The Quakers are known as the -
Slaves were brought to America through the -
Transatlantic Slave Trade
This was the first representative legislature in the colonies