PEGS
What are the three G's for Exploration?
Gold, God, & Glory
What does "Old World" refer to?
Africa, Asia & Europe
The "Lost Colony"
Roanoke
No work, no eat policy was started by this man.
John Smith
The 3 main crops that supported the middle colonists and gave it it's nickname.
Wheat, oats, & barley (& corn).
What are the 4 main reasons people explore, move or leave their home country?
Political, Economical, Geographical, & Social
How do scientists think people migrated from Asia to the Americas during the last Ice Age?
Over the land bridge - Beringia
Squanto helped this colony by teaching them to hunt, fish, & farm.
Plymouth
The New England Colonies relied on this for its economy.
the ocean
The Middle Colonies specifically attracted people looking for what?
Religious Tolerance (Freedom)
A King sends his army to conquer land to expand his empire. This is an example of which part of PEGS? (Hint it is more than one)
Political & Geographical
What was the goal for the first European Explorers?
To find an all water route to Asia.
Experienced swampland & mosquitoes where they settled.
Jamestown
Spectral evidence, confessions, & physical evidence were 3 ways that were used for what?
As evidence to prove someone was a "witch"
The horrific, deadly sea journey where millions of captured Africans were forcibly transported across the Atlantic to the Americas as part of the transatlantic slave trade.
The Middle Passage
Medals are awarded to explorers in recognition of their bravery & service of the country. Which part of PEGS is this?
Political
Which ancient Native American civilization developed an advanced highway system?
The Incas
Who sponsored the Jamestown Colony to find gold and set up a fish and fur trade?
the Virginia Company
Growing only what you needed, but not for profit is called what?
Subsistence farming.
Colony that was founded with the hope that it would prevent the Spanish from attacking the other colonies, like a buffer zone.
Georgia
Explorers spreading Christianity across the world as they explored is which part of PEGS?
Social
What was the imaginary line running down the middle of the Atlantic from the North Pole to the South Pole called?
Line of Demarcation
What was the document that the pilgrims signed before they settled in Plymouth?
the Mayflower Compact
Started a colony specifically for the Quakers.
William Penn (Pennsylvania)
A time when it was realized people had lost their faith, so a religious revival of faith happened.
The Great Awakening