Colonies in General
This land settled by another country in the western hemisphere was settled by European countries, but all eventually became ruled by England.
What were the 13 colonies?
Cold winters, many trees, mountains inland but flat along the coast, rocky soil and short growing season: these are part of what that describes the New England Colonies?
What is geography and climate?
The land ranged from coastal plains, to rolling hills and mountains further inland. There are longer growing seasons than in New England, with more sun and lots of rain, the soil is deep and rich with mild winters and warm summers.
What is the Geography and Climate of the Middle Colonies?
Marked by a warm climate with mild winters, long growing seasons and ideal soil on the coastal plains, diseases were rampant in the Southern Colonies due to these factors:
What are geography and climate?
This was the first social contract of the new world, signed on a boat:
What was the Mayflower Compact?
People living in the colonies
Who were colonists?
Another name for something related to the wealth and resources of a country or region; the "Money-making" in the New England Colonies was based on Fur trapping, ship building, fishing/whaling and harvesting timber.
Because of the large cash crop industry in grains such as wheat, corn, oats, the middle colonies became known as this particular type of container used for carrying baked goods.
What is the "bread basket"?
Tobacco, cotton, rice, indigo and sugarcane formed the basis of the Southern economy, as farmers and plantation owners produced these "crops sold for cash."
What are Cash Crops?
This was the first constitution of the new world:
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
These were the three groups of colonies.
What were the New England Colonies, the Middle Colonies and the Southern Colonies?
People lived close to each other, church was central to life, Puritans were the dominant faith but not tolerant of other faiths, town meetings established the tradition of self-government and democracy: these factors are not economic, but are what?
What were social factors in the New England Colonies
The cash crop farming of grains, the wide variety of craftsmen, the large ports in Philadelphia and in New York, for exporting and importing goods, and the manufacturing of various textiles were all part of this in the Middle Colonies:
What is the economy?
The demand for labor to work on plantations led to this practice whereby a person is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them.
What is slavery?
This was the first representative government of the new world:
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
This was the first social contract of the newly forming colonies, signed while Pilgrims were still aboard their ship, the Mayflower.
What was the Mayflower Compact?
The economy in the New England Colonies was based on this system, whereby colonist would send raw materials to the Mother Country, and buy finished products (made from the materials they shipped). This system also discouraged colonists from buying foreign products, while creating incentives to only buy British goods.
What was mercantilism?
Because it was the most diverse region, the Middle Colonies developed this: the ability to appreciate spiritual values, beliefs and practices which are different from your own.
What is Religious Tolerance?
Not only part of the economy, but also part of the social and political life in the South, these large farms grew cash crops and were the center of living and working in the Southern Colonies.
What are plantations?
This involved laxly enforced trade regulations for the new colonies. During the period when the British government wasn't enforcing its laws in the colonies, the colonists became accustomed to governing themselves. Thus, it contributed to the coming American Revolution.
What is Salutary Neglect?
These two factors contributed greatly to the development of the various economies in the colonies: one has to do with the lay of the land and the other has to do with weather patterns and temperatures.
What are geography and climate.
Because there were no cash crops grown in the New England Colonies, farms were small (mostly subsistence farms), and the colonists they relied on English imports of glass, linens, paint, and household items. They prospered using this triangular trade network (NOT to be confused with the Columbian Exchange):
He for whom the State of Pennsylvania was named, was the Middle Colonies leader in tolerance.
Who is William Penn?
The Middle Passage was a slave trade route involving America, Europe and Africa. What is another geometric rooted name for this three part journey where the three traders exchanged sugar, cotton, tobacco, manufactured goods as well as African men, women and children as commodities?
What was Triangular Trade?
Colonists enjoyed MORE participation in developing their own government, BETTER standard of living and MORE social and economic mobility.