Mercantilism
Under the principles of mercantilism, a country should ______ more than it _________.
Export more than it imports.
This region was characterized by a short growing season, cold climate, and hard rocky soil. So agriculture never became their thing.
New England
The House of Burgesses was founded in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia, and became the first colonial ______.
Representative government
This religious revival movement encouraged colonists to challenge traditional authorities.
Great Awakening
The first successful British colony in North America
Jamestown
The Southern colonies had a system of self sufficient plantations, because very few __________ developed in the region.
Towns, Urban Areas
This was the first governing document in what would become the United States.
Mayflower Compact
What was the main cause of King Phillip's War?
Colonial desire for more land.
Southern colony that was successful in growing indigo, and was the site of the Stono Rebellion of enslaved people.
South Carolina
The portion of the trans-Atlantic trade that brought enslaved people from Africa to the America's was known as_________.
The Middle Passage
The primary reason _________ was founded was to provide a logical, religiously tolerant colony.
Pennsylvania
______ Rebellion resulted in small farmers and frontier settlers confronting the House of Burgesses, whom they saw as only representing the wealthy planters.
Bacon's
Foods like okra, and styles of architecture like shotgun houses, came to America from where?
Africa
The name of the group that sailed on the Mayflower to found the colony of Plymouth.
Pilgrims
This Mid-Atlantic (Middle Colony) was initially founded by the Dutch as New Netherland, before the British defeated them.
New York
This region was the most literate, as schools were encouraged as a means to teach reading the bible.
New England Colonies
What is the name of the policy where the British relaxed the Navigation Acts and gave the colonists more freedom, as long as they obeyed the rules?
Salutary Neglect
This colony was founded, in-part, to provide a buffer between the Spanish in Florida, and British Southern colonies.
Georgia
Became governor of Jamestown in 1608, and led the colonists through the Starving Time in 1609-1610.
John Smith
What was true of most early contact between the colonists and Native Americans?
Started peaceful, eventually broke down
This region had a great system of harbors and river systems, that allowed them to easily ship out their wheat and corn.
Middle (Mid-Atlantic) Colonies
Thomas Hooker led a group of Puritans from Massachusetts to found a new colony. Their founding document, _________, is considered America's first written constitution.
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
Most of what we known of the lives of enslaved people in the early colonial times comes to us from________
Oral tradition
This colony was founded to be a safe haven for Catholics.
Maryland