Southern Colonies
A joint-stock company founded this first permanent English settlement in the Americas
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
Due to the rocky and thin soil, New England's economy was primarily based on this
What is shipbuilding/trade?
The acceptance of the religious beliefs of others
What is religious toleration?
Economic policy of maximizing exports and minimizing imports; colonies provide mother country with raw materials and markets for finished products
What is mercantilism?
As long as the colonies are generating wealth for England, they can govern themselves
What is Salutary Neglect?
Later grown on large plantations throughout the South, what cash crop helped save Jamestown?
What is tobacco?
Pilgrims and Puritans combine to form this New England colony
What is the Massachusetts colony?
Result of being settled by other European countries first
What is diverse population?
Lower class Englishmen who worked on farms to pay back their debt
What are indentured servants?
First WRITTEN form of self-government in the American colonies
What is the Mayflower Compact?
Due to fertile soil, the Southern colonies' economy was based on this
What is agriculture?
Roger Williams founded this NE colony in 1636 after being banished by Puritans
What is Providence, Rhode Island?
First settled by the Dutch in 1614 and called New Netherland
What is New York?
Leg of Triangular trade that shipped enslaved Africans to the Americas
What is the Middle Passage?
Primary form of government used in New England dominated by majority rule
What are town hall meetings?
Southern colony founded by Catholics escaping religious persecution in England
What is Maryland?
New England colonies like Massachusetts and Rhode Island were founded for this purpose
What is religious dissent?
Quaker who founded Pennsylvania
Who is William Penn?
Architectural contribution to American culture from African slaves
What are shotgun homes?
Religious revival that led colonists to focus on individual religious experiences
What is the Great Awakening?
These TWO colonial regions had negative relations with Native Americans due to more and more colonists encroaching on native lands
What is Southern and New England Colonies?
Bloody conflict fought between Metacom and the Puritans because of colonists spreading out from Boston
What is King Phillip's War?
Middle Colonies economy is based off BOTH of these
What is agriculture and trade?
TWO colonial regions where the majority of African slaves were to work on large cash crop plantations
What are Southern and Middle Colonies?
Leader whose rebellion underlined the importance of a government representing ALL citizens
Who is Nathaniel Bacon?