New England Colonies
What was the main reason the New England Colonies were started?
Religious Freedom
What word describes the Middle Colonies’ mix of people and cultures?
Diverse
What was the FIRST successful English colony in America?
Jamestown, Virginia
What was the first representative government in the colonies?
The House of Burgesses
What was the first successful NEW ENGLAND colony (You learned TWO at the beginning of the UNIT but you need to name the one from the NEW ENGLAND COLONIES)?
Plymouth Colony
What nickname did the Middle Colonies earn because they grew grains like wheat and barley?
The Breadbasket Colonies
What were large farms in the South called?
Plantations
What document in Maryland granted religious freedom to all Christians?
The Act of Toleration
Which group wanted to purify the Church of England?
Puritans
What colony was founded by William Penn for Quakers?
Pennsylvania
What were the three main cash crops of the Southern Colonies (there a FOUR main ones that we learned)?
Tobacco, rice, cotton and indigo
What was the Middle Passage?
The brutal voyage that brought enslaved Africans to the colonies
Who started Rhode Island for religious tolerance and fair treatment of Natives?
Roger Williams
What colony was originally settled by the Dutch and called New Netherland (Originally had a city named New Amsterdam in this colony)?
New York
Who founded Maryland as a refuge for Catholics?
Lord Baltimore (George Calvert)
Why were there few schools in the Southern Colonies?
Plantations were far apart
Which leader founded Connecticut and helped write the Fundamental Orders, the first written constitution in America?
Thomas Hooker
Name two major port cities in the Middle Colonies.
New York City and Philadelphia
Who founded Georgia for debtors and to protect against Spanish Florida?
James Oglethorpe
What movement encouraged new religious ideas and tolerance in the colonies?
The Great Awakening