Religious Groups
The New England Colonies
The Middle Colonies
The Southern Colonies
Other Random Facts
100
Pennsylvania was home to what religious group?
What is the Quakers?
100
The New England colonies were made up of these states
What is Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Connecticut?
100
These 4 colonies made up the Middle Atlantic region
What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware?
100
The Southern colonies included these states
What is Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia?
100
This challenged the established religious and governmental order in the 13 colonies and laid one of the social foundations for the American Revolution
What is the "Great Awakening"?
200
New York was home to what two religious groups?
What are the Huguenots and the Jews?
200
New England was founded by this group seeking freedom from religious persecution in Europe
What is the Puritans?
200
The Middle Atlantic Region was settled primarily immigrants who spoke these three languages
What is English, Dutch, and German?
200
This group consisted of English nobility who received large land grants in eastern Virginia from the king of England
What are the cavaliers?
200
These two things initiated worldwide commercial expansion
What is exploration and colonization?
300
New Jersey was home to this religious group
What is the Presbyterians?
300
The "covenant community" formed by the Puritans was based on the principles of these two things
What is the Mayflower Compact and Puritan religious beliefs?
300
The middle colonies developed economies based on these three industries
What is shipbuilding, small-scale farming, and trading?
300
These 3 crops are the "cash crops" grown in the Southern colonies
What is tobacco, rice, and indigo?
300
Colonization led to these two ideas
What is representative government and religious toleration?
400
The Great Awakening led to the rapid growth of evangelical religions such as these two groups
What are the Methodists and Baptists?
400
New England's colonial society was based on this particular criteria
What is religious standing?
400
The middle colonies had more flexible social structures which aided in the development of this social group
What is the middle class?
400
This was established by the 1640s to make laws for Colonial Virginia
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
400
This man, who visited the colonies in 1740, was perhaps the most important preacher in the "Great Awakening" movement
Who is George Whitefield?
500
This religious group settled in the mountains and valleys of the Appalachian foothills
What is Scottish Protestants?
500
The New England colonies prospered due to the reflection of these two things
What is the Puritan's belief in the values of hard work and thrift (saving)?
500
This was reflected in the incorporated democratic principles followed by the middle colonies
What is the basic rights of Englishmen?
500
Jamestown was established in 1607 by this company as a business venture
What is the Virginia Company of London?
500
American economic and political institutions owed their development to these 3 things which shaped regional economic differences in the American colonies
What are climate, soil conditions, and other natural resources?
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