Discovering America
Why did Puritans come to New England?
Escape religious persecution
Name two things New England's colony was based on.
lumber, shipbuilding, fishing, small-scaled manufacturing
Name the four Middle Colonies
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
What was the Southern Colonies economy based on?
Plantation Agriculture
Which country had the best relationship with Native Americans?
France
The Puritan covenants community was created under which document?
Mayflower Compact
Name the four New England Colonies
Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire
File in the blank:
Unlike the New England religions, the Middle colony was more ______________ to people of different beliefs.
tolerant
What was the name of people who agreed to work for so many years for a company or country in exchange for money.
Indentured Servants
Which colony had the first Thanksgiving?
Plymouth (Massachusetts) Colony
Why did settlers originally come to Jamestown, VA?
Economic Opportunity
Fill in the blank:
Some people rebelled from the Puritan religion because is was _____________.
intolerant
The religious group that lived in this colony
Pennsylvania
Name the 5 Southern Colonies
Maryland, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia
Which colonies did Native Americans first acquire guns?
Middle Colonies
What was the name of the first elected assembly in the New World (Think Virginia)?
House of Burgesses
Who founded Rhode Island?
Roger Williams
Who founded Pennsylvania colony
William Penn
Who were wealthy landowners in Virginia that received land grants from the King of England in exchange for a specific purpose?
Cavaliers
In which colonies did a series of wars break out between Europeans and the Powhatan tribe?
Southern Colonies
What group formed the Plymouth colony?
Pilgrims
Salem Witch Trials
Why was trade easy in the Middle Colonies?
Navigable waters
Its when a farmer and a family uses everything they grew for themselves, mostly.
Subsistence Farming
What is an economic system which its goal is to export more than it imports, thereby gaining more money>
Mercantilism