Exploration and Native Americans
Gold, God, Glory
What were the motives for European exploration of the New World?
The attempt to colonize Roanoke led by John White.
What is the Lost Colony?
Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, Georgia, and South Carolina are all in this group of colonies.
What are the Southern Colonies?
A crop that is sold for money.
What is a Cash Crop?
Name at least two of the important cash crops grown on the southern colonies.
What are rice, indigo, tobacco?
Christopher Columbus
Who was the explorer that "discovered" the New World?
Tuscarora Natives believed they could hunt wherever they wanted, since by tradition all the land belonged to...
Who is Everyone/No One? (No one could own the land)
This colonial region had a mild climate, lots of good ports and was known as the Breadbasket colonies.
What is the Middle Colony region?
This is a positive condition or attribute in a destination location that attracts people to move or migrate. Example would be better jobs, climate, etc.
What is a PULL factor?
This was the most powerful tribe in Eastern NC during the early Colonial Era.
Who are the Tuscarora?
They walked across the Bering Strait about 20,000 years ago
NC most celebrated early resident was this man, the most famous pirate of history.
Who is Blackbeard?
This colonial region was cold with bad soil, they relied on shipping, whaling and trade.
What is the New England region?
A colonist who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.
What is an Indentured Servant?
Lines that run East to West but measure how far North to South something is from the Equator.
What is latitude?
The first European nation to create colonies in the New World, looking for gold and to spread their wealth.
Who is Spain?
When the Lord Proprietors split the colony of Carolina and appointed a separate governor for each part in 1711.
What is the division/split of North and South Carolina?
This was the document that the Plymouth colonists signed as an agreement to set up their government.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This is a group of people from one country who build a settlement in another territory, or land. They claim the new land for the mother country.
What is a colony?
The journey that enslaved Africans endured across the Atlantic Ocean during the Triangular Trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
This is the main reason for arguments between Native Americans and Europeans.
What is arguments/disagreements about land?
This opened up North Carolina's backcountry known as the Piedmont for settlement.
What is the Great Wagon Road/Philadelphia Wagon Road?
The law making body of colonial Virginia that was established in Jamestown.
What is the House of Burgesses?
A type of company that people could invest in to earn a profit. They provided money and resources to set up the Jamestown Colony and others.
What is a Joint Stock Company?
These are the three types of English colonies *GOVERNMENT*
What are Royal, Charter, and Proprietary?