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Who was granted the resources to find an alternate trade route to Asia by Ferdinand and Isabella?
Christopher Columbus
The first colony that was founded by Captain John Smith?
Jamestown
What disease the Europeans bring to the Native Americans?
Small pox and measles
Which religion was the most controlling and strict in the colonies?
Puritan
What was the transfer of plants, animals, and germs from one end of the Atlantic to the other?
Columbian exchange
Who as the political theorist that wrote the “Two Treaties of Government”?
John Locke
Which colonies were developed around small towns with family farms and achieved a thriving mixed economy of agriculture and commerce?
New England colonies
Which settlement were hunters, had people that settled and traded, and used the grasslands of the western Great Plains?
Great Plains
What was the main church of Virginia and some Southern colonie?
Anglican/ Church of England
What system did the Spanish colonials marshal Native America labor o support plantation-based agricultur?
encomienda system
Who was banished from Boston, Massachusetts and started his own colony that practiced religious freedom?
Roger Williams
Which colony was founded by Puritans and had harsh Puritan rule until the 18th century?
Massachusetts
Which settlement is a dry region that is present day New Mexico and Arizona?
Southwest settlements
Which religion was known as the society of friends and was prominent in Pennsylvania?
Quakers
What groups did European traders partner with to extract slave labor by force for the Americas?
West African
The author of the ”Poor Richard’s Almanack”, placed the first image in the Philadelphia Gazete, and contributed to the first medical college?
Benjamin Franklin
Which colony was the only colony founded by a woman?
Rhode Island
What crop was spread widely in the American Southwest settlemen?
maize (corn)
What were the religions the Germans brought to the colonies?
Lutheran and Amish
Who was a convert to the Quaker faith and the royal family granted him land that he named after himself?
William Penn
Name two royal colonies.
New Hampshire, New York, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Virginia, and Massachusetts
What favored development of permanent villages in the Northeast, along the Atlantic seaboard, and the Mississippi River Valley
mixed agricultural and hunter-gatherer economies