Red
How did William Penn want his colony to be viewed as?
Haven for religious freedom
How many original English colonies are there?
13
What is a cash crop?
Crop grown to sell for cash.
What group of people were friendly and respected the Native Americans
French
What is agriculture
farming
What was New Amsterdam renamed too?
New York
What group of people believed that everybody was equal in God's eyes.
Quakers
What colony is known as the missing colony?
Roanoke
How long did it take John White to return to Roanoke?
3 years
Why did the Spanish want to colonize the Americas?
Gold, God, & Glory
Why were the Middle Colonies known as the Breadbasket colonies?
They grew crops that made bread.
Many of the settlers of the New England Colonies were looking for what?
Religious Freedom
What was the main reason the Spanish were able to defeat the Aztecs and Incas so easily?
Spanish spread European diseases
What is a colony in which the King and Queen have control?
Royal Colony
Why was there conflict between the settlers and Native Americans?
Settlers were taking Native American land.
What was the main reason that New Jersey was formed?
New York was too big to govern.
What was the main reason New England cities became major ship building centers?
They had plenty of wood and coastline
What animal was also hunted to extinction?
Beaver
How does a free market economy work?
Businesses can function without interference from the government.
What did Christopher Columbus want to find by sailing across the Atlantic?
To find a trade route to Asia.
The increased number of slaves arriving in America was largely due to what?
Increase in the plantation system.
James Oglethorpe in Georgia wanted his colony to be a place where people can have what?
Second a chance at life for debtors
Why was the location of Jamestown chosen?
They were hidden and protected from Spanish ships.
What is the main difference between Tidewater and the backcountry?
The physical characteristics of the environment.
Louisiana was named after who?
King Louis XIV
What was the difference between North and South Carolina?
North had poor tobacco farmers & South had rich rice farmers
The Mayflower Compact showed that Pilgrims were aware of what?
They were aware that they needed their own government/rules
What is a colony in which a person is given land in exchange for a yearly payment?
Proprietary Colony
What is the first permanent English colony in the Americas.
Jamestown
Why did the British want to take New Amsterdam from the Dutch?
Economic opportunity
What word was found on a fence post by John White in Roanoke?
CROATOAN
What was the name of Christophers Columbus' 3 ships?
Nina, Pinta, & Santa Maria
BEST COLONY EVER!!!!!
NEW JERSEY!!!!!
Who was looking for the "Fountain of Youth" in Florida?
Juan Ponce de Leon
People that destroyed the Aztec and Inca Empires easily, mainly because diseases
Conquistadors
Name of the journey where millions of enslaved Africans crossed the Atlantic.
Middle Passage