Colonies
These are the three groups of colonies.
What are New England, Middle, and Southern?
This geographic feature most influenced where colonists settled
What is access to water?
The demand for enslaved workers increased in these colonies.
What are the Southern colonies?
This person ruled the 13 colonies.
What is the monarch of Great Britain?
This person was a prominent Quaker who was imprisoned for radical teaching and eventually started a colony in America under the values of toleration.
Who is William Penn
Cutting timber, ship building, trading and whaling are the major industries for these colonies.
What are the New England Colonies?
Early colonists had to do this to their environment in order to survive.
What is adapt?
Nickname for the type of farming for profit that included tobacco, rice, indigo, and slave labor. Generally associated with Southern Colonies.
What are cash crops?
This is the type of government where elected officials make laws for its people.
What is Representative Democracy?
This person led a group of Pilgrims from England to the New World and served as governor of the Plymouth Colony.
Who is William Bradford
Wheat farming and iron mining are the major industries for these colonies.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This group of colonists focused primarily on fur trading.
Who are French colonists?
The demand for cash crops produced by the plantation system increased this.
What is the demand for enslaved workers?
This document was significant because it was a form of government based on a social contract.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This person brought the first group of settlers to America in 1607 and established the Jamestown settlement.
Who is John Smith
Farming, growing cash crops, and trading are the major industries for these colonies.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This group of colonists established Catholic missions.
Who are Spanish colonists?
This was the result of mercantilist policies.
What is the free enterprise system?
The first form of representative government in the colonies. Elected officials of Jamestown formed this legislative body.
What is the House of Burgesses?
This person was exiled from Massachusetts for challenging Puritan laws and practices (heresy) and eventually settled in Rhode Island.
Who is Anne Hutchinson
This is the main reason (think PEGS) for European Exploration of the Americas and the settlement of the Jamestown colony.
What is economic?
How did mercantilist policies create tension between the colonies and Great Britain?
Colonists were prevented from trading with most foreign countries.
Why did representative government and institutions grow during the colonial period?
Rulers in England left the colonists to take care of themselves.
This person was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony after disagreeing with Puritan laws and practices. They started the Colony of Rhode Island.
Who is Roger Williams?