Chesapeake Colonies
What states encompass the Chesapeake Colonies
What is Maryland and Virginia
What additional states were considered part of the Southern Colonies?
What is South Carolina, North Carolina and Georgia
What states encompass the New England Colonies
What is Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut
What states encompass the Middle Colonies?
What is Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware
What was the first colony established in the Chesapeake colonies, what setup?
What is Jamestown and a joint stock company
What was the motivation for settlers in the Southern Colonies?
Cash Crops
South Carolina- rice
North Carolina- tobacco
Georgia- defense and economics
What motivated colonization in the New England colonies? What were the demographics?
What is religious motivation, tight knit communities, male and female settlers.
What were the demographics of the Middle Colonies
What is demographically, religiously, ethnically diverse
What was the main motivation for moving to the Southern Colonies (Chesapeake), who mainly moved there.
What is tobacco as a cash crop, Headright system. What is indentured servants, young men.
What was the transition in labor force?
What is indentured servitude to enslaved African labor
What were the invididuals in the Plymouth Colony called, what did they believe in?
What is Puritans, wanted to purify the church
or
What is Pilgrims, wanted to separate away from Anglican church
What was the economy in the Middle Colonies based on?
What is breadbasket (wheat, corn), and trade
What was their relationship with Natives? What tribe did they interact with?
What is a hostile relationship between the colonists and the Powhatan tribe.
Geography of Southern Colonies
What is fertile soil, moderate weather
What was their source of wealth from?
What is a mixed economy- maritime industries, lumber, small scale farming
What are the features of William Penn's colony?
What is a refuge for Quakers, a representative assembly, fair to natives, religious toleration
Which Act that gave religious freedom to all Christians, but especially Catholics?
What were the cash crops in South Carolina and Georgia
What is Indigo and Rice
What was their relationship with Natives?
What is hostile?
Pequot War, King Philips War, New England Confederation
What was their relationship with Natives?
What is friendly for the most part