Explorations
13 Colonies- Characteristics
Leaders of the Colonies
Jamestown and Plymouth
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What are the 3 G's in exploration? Which country believed in them?

Gold, God, Glory

Spain

100
What is are the industries/economic opportunities/jobs of the New England colonies?
fishing, shipbuilding, whaling, lumber
100

Who was the founder of Connecticut? Why did he establish Connecticut? What was his constitution called?

Thomas Hooker; religious freedom- the separation of church and state; the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
100

Where was the first successful English settlement in America? Where was the second? What years were they in?

Jamestown- 1607

Plymouth- 1620

100
Who was the main source of labor on plantations?

slaves

200

What are the 3 F's? Which country is this tied to? Explain each F.

French, fur, friends

200

What are the jobs/industries/economic opportunities of the Middle Colonies? What nickname do they go by based on their jobs?

planting and harvesting wheat, grains, oat, rye, barley

Breadbasket colonies

200

William Penn was the founder of which state? What was his religious group called?

Pennsylvania; Quakers

200

The colonists who established the Plymouth colony mainly wanted to:

avoid religious persecution and practice their religion freely

200
What are the 3 P's that we talked about in relation to the Mayflower and Massachusetts Bay Colony?

- Pilgrims

- Puritans

- Plymouth

300

What was the name of the Spanish explorers?

conquistadors

300
Which colony was established as a place where Quaker colonists could practice their religion without persecution?

Pennsylvania

300

Which TWO people went to Rhode Island for separation of church and state?

- Roger Williams

- Anne Hutchinson

300

Why did the Puritans/ Pilgrims leave England?

religious oppression

300

What cash crop made Jamestown successful and grow in population almost overnight?

tobacco

400

Which country hired Christopher Columbus? What did he do?

Spain; discovered the New World, accidentally

400

What was the education like in the Middle colonies? More specifically, what education did teenage boys get?

apprenticeships

400

James Oglethorpe created which colony and for what reasons?

Georgia; place for prisoners, debtors, and poor people; protect against Spanish Florida
400

The Virginia House of Burgesses was created by which early English settlement? What was their type of government?

Jamestown; representative government

400

What was the religious movement in the English colonies in the early 1700s called?

The First Great Awakening

500

What was the system of exchange called between the goods and resources of the Old World and the New World?

The Columbian Exchange
500

New York was originally established as what by whom?

trading center; Dutch

500
Lord Baltimore established __________ for whom?

Maryland; Catholics

500

What was the government type in Plymouth? What was their plan to create a government called?

self-government; Mayflower Compact

500

Name the pattern of the routes of the Transatlantic slave trade.

raw materials: from Americas--> Europe

textiles, rum, and manufactured goods: from Europe--> Africa

slaves: Africa--> Americas

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