Exploration & Colonization
These three 'G's exemplify many Europeans' motivations to explore, spread Christianity, find wealth, and gain prestige.
What are God, Gold, and Glory?
The vast distance from this country created a need for colonists to make their own laws.
What is England?
This region's physical characteristics include rocky soil, a cold climate, and industries like logging, fishing, and shipbuilding.
What is New England?
The Southern colonies' warm climate, rich soil, and year-round growing season were ideal for this agricultural system.
What is the plantation system?
The first enslaved persons in the colonies were sold here in 1619.
What is Virginia?
This colony was founded by Catholics seeking to flee religious persecution.
What is Maryland?
Initially, many nations sponsored exploration to find faster routes to the markets of this ocean.
What is the Indian Ocean (or Asia)?
Created in 1618, this was the first elected legislative body in the English colonies.
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Known for its large farms and religious diversity, this region contains the major cities of New York and Philadelphia.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This economic policy encouraged European nations to use colonies as a source of raw materials and markets.
What is mercantilism?
In 1688 in Pennsylvania, this religious group was the first to formally pass an anti-slavery resolution.
Who are the Quakers?
This Protestant revival challenged established traditional Protestant practices in the colonies.
What is the First Great Awakening?
This European nation leveraged fur trapping in the cold north as their primary economic opportunity.
What is France?
This 1620 document was created by colonists to recreate English traditions and establish a self-governing community.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This physical feature served as a barrier to westward expansion for early colonists until 1790.
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton were all grown in the South and known collectively by this two-word term.
What are cash crops?
By the time of the American Revolution, enslaved persons made up 60 percent of the total population of this colony.
What is South Carolina?
Immigrating primarily for economic reasons, the Swedes established settlements in this colony.
What is Delaware?
This group became colonists in order to escape religious persecution and establish communities in Massachusetts.
Who are the Puritans (or Pilgrims/Separatists)?
This term describes the period where colonists ruled themselves with little interference from the king, a neglect that benefited English rule.
What is Salutary Neglect?
Boston, New York City, and Charleston all share this specific physical characteristic that aided in trade.
What are natural harbors?
This trade system exchanged enslaved people in the colonies for goods, forming a network between the colonies, England, West Africa, and the West Indies.
What is the Triangular Trade (or Transatlantic Slave Trade)?
In 1662, Virginia law made slavery hereditary, stating a child's legal status was determined by this parent.
Who is the mother?
The Dutch originally settled in this future colony, drawn primarily by economic reasons.
What is New York?
This nation created a system of rule over native populations as labor for mining and farming throughout Central and South America.
What is Spain?
This 18th-century intellectual movement in Europe influenced colonial leaders with ideas of natural laws and individual rights.
What is the Enlightenment?
Issued by the British, this 1763 decree limited colonial settlement to the east of the Appalachian Mountains.
What is the Proclamation of 1763?
Before the widespread use of enslaved African labor, the demand for cheap labor in the colonies was initially met by these contracted workers.
What are indentured servants?
This term characterizes slavery in the colonies where enslaved people and their children were considered property and treated as commodities.
What is chattel slavery?
By 1776, this group made up approximately 20 percent of the entire population in the American colonies.
Who are Black people (or enslaved persons)?