It's Giving Self-Government
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Colonial Money Moves
Church, Choice & Change
Slave Trade Truths
History: Let's Run It Back
100
This 1620 agreement established rules for governing the Plymouth colony.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
100
Based on your reading and this map, why did colonists choose this location for Jamestown?
The location was on the water but sheltered from larger bodies of water.
100
In 1606, the King granted the Virginia Company a _____, which a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company. They then journeyed to Virginia and established Jamestown.
What is a charter?
100
This religious group believed that all people were equal in God's eyes.
Who are the Quakers?
100
These laws controlled the lives of enslaved Africans.
What are slave codes?
100
This document, signed in 1215, limited the power of the English king.
What is the Magna Carta?
200
This Virginia assembly was the first example of limited self-government in the English colonies.
What is the House of Burgesses?
200
This region had fertile farmland, a milder climate, and became known for agriculture and trade.
What is Middle?
200
This economic system was based on the idea that colonies should benefit their home country economically.
What is mercantilism?
200
The Maryland Act of Toleration was created primarily to protect the freedom of worship of this group.
Who are Catholics?
200
Newly enslaved Africans were often transported on ships that can be described as this.
What is overcrowded?
200
This 1689 document, signed by William and Mary, guaranteed rights to English citizens.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
300
Thomas Hooker settled this town and established a representative government.
What is Hartford (Connecticut)?
300
This region had a warm climate and fertile land that supported large-scale agriculture and plantations.
What is Southern?
300
These British laws regulated trade between England and its colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?
300
This colony was founded by William Penn and became known for attracting people from different ethnic groups.
What is Pennsylvania?
300
Why did Africans increasingly replace American Indians as enslaved laborers?
Europeans believed Africans were better able to work in the climate.
300
This event resulted in William and Mary becoming the monarchs of Britain.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
400
In this type of government, voters elect representatives to make laws for them.
What is a representative government?
400
This region had rocky soil, a colder climate, forests, and a coastline that supported fishing and shipping.
What is New England?
400
Why did the Southern Colonies have a much higher average wealth than the New England and Middle Colonies?
Southern colonies relied heavily on cheap or free labor.
400
Define persecution.
Mistreating a group of people because of their beliefs
400
How did southern agriculture contribute to an increase in the number of enslaved Africans brought to North America?
Large plantations in the Southern Colonies needed more enslaved people for field labor.
400
This European movement of the 1600s–1700s encouraged people to use reason and logic.
Think: Isaac Newton & Benjamin Franklin
What is Enlightenment?
500
This Massachusetts Bay elected assembly helped govern the colony.
What is the General Court?
500
Communities near rivers and creeks with flat, fertile land were part of which Southern region?
What is the Tidewater?
500
Large rice, indigo, and tobacco plantations in the Southern Colonies needed more of this type of labor for field work.
What is enslaved labor?
500
Puritans believed that Christians had a duty to study the Bible directly. This led to many New Englanders to teach their children to....
read and write
500
In the Southern Colonies' Tidewater region, who performed most of the work on plantations?
Enslaved Africans
500
In colonial society, a person's status depended on their.... what?
Family background and wealth
600
New England settlers used these local gatherings to discuss and make decisions about community issues.
What are town meetings?
600
How was the Southern Colonies' backcountry different from the Tidewater?
The backcountry had hilly, heavily forested land, and families often grew and harvested much of their own food. The Tidewater had flatter, fertile land near rivers and creeks and relied more heavily on plantation agriculture and enslaved labor.
600
How did the headright system contribute to the expansion of slavery?
It encouraged planters to purchase more enslaved people in order to gain more land.
600
PENN'S BIG IDEA: What set Pennsylvania apart from many other colonies?
Its effort to attract people of different ethnicities.
600
Describe ALL THREE legs of the triangular trade. For each leg, tell us where it traveled and what was transported.
Colonies to Africa --> rum, iron, manufactured goods
Africa to West Indies --> enslaved Africans
West Indies to Colonies --> sugar, molasses, money, fruit
600
Give TWO reasons Georgia was founded.
1) To create a buffer zone between Spanish Florida and the British colonies
2) To create a refuge for debtors and other poor people in Britain
700
THINK IT THROUGH: Name two examples of self-government from the English colonies and explain how each gave colonists a role in governing themselves.
Answers may include the Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, General Court, town meetings, or representative government, with an accurate explanation.
700
Compare the geography of all three colonial regions. Give at least one characteristic of New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies
Possible Answers
New England: Rocky soil, harsh winters, a lot of timber, long coastline | fishing, whaling, shipbuilding, logging, small-scale farming | Pilgrims, Puritans, Yankees
Middle: Rich fertile river valleys, mild climate, longer growing seasons | Growing cash crops (wheat, barley, rye), ironworking, trade | Germans, Dutch, Quakers, Patroon
Southern: Flat coastal plains (Tidewater), rugged frontier (Back Country), rich soil, warm weather, longer growing seasons | Large scale plantations (tobacco, rice, indigo) | English planters, debtors (Georgia), Catholics (Maryland), enslaved Africans
700
ECONOMY SHOWDOWN: Compare the economies of New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies.
New England relied heavily on shipping/fishing/trade
Middle Colonies relied on agriculture/trade
Southern Colonies relied on plantation agriculture/cash crops and reliance on enslaved labor
700
Religion in the Colonies: One movement led to the creation of new churches. The other was a general, widespread religious movement. NAME BOTH!
Protestant Reformation = led to the creation of new churches
Great Awakening = widespread religious movement
700
In class, we have focused on how the Colonies, Africa, and the West Indies were involved in Triangular Trade. However, Europe benefited greatly from the trade process. Explain what they received and what they produced.
*We learned this in our DBQ!
Europe received raw materials and goods from the colonies and West Indies, such as cash crops. Europe then produced manufactured goods, which were traded to Africa.
700
According to the infographic, what did the New England and Middle Colonies have in common?
Both regions mostly exported food products.