Miscellaneous
in order to build economic strength, a nation must export more than it imports.
What is mercantilism?
Lumber, Ship building, Fur, Fishing/Whaling, Manufacturing, Trade
What was New England's economy based on?
founded in 1637
What is Pennsylvania?
founded in 1607
What is Virginia?
Trading between the 13 colonies, Europe, Africa and the Caribbean Islands
What was the Triangular Trade?
the first permanent English settlement in the Americas
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
What are the New England Colonies?
Profit from trade (e.g. wheat, lumber fur, sugar, shipbuilding)
What is New York?
founder of Georgia
Who is James Oglethorpe?
slave sent to the Americas from
What is Africa?
cotton, tobacco and sugar
What were America's 3 main cash crops?
a very strict religious group centered in New England colonies
Who were the Puritans?
founder of New York
Who is James, the Duke of York?
The colony that was a buffer to protect the Carolinians from Spanish-controlled Florida
What is Georgia?
sugar and molasses were primarily traded through this route
What is the Middle Passage?
Presbyterians, Baptists and Methodists
What were the 3 denominations from the Great Awakening?
New England colony that became the largest city for trade
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
founder of Pennsylvania
Who was William Penn?
This geography gave rise to a social structure in which the great planters or plantation owners occupied the top spot.
What are the Southern Colonies?
The rum would be taken to Africa in exchange for
What are African slaves?
emphasized a personal relationship with God
What was the Great Awakening?
Natural harbors and rivers helped move people, food, and goods for trade. Also Religious freedom.
Why did majority of settlers come?
Two colonies that made profit from trade and had land available for farming
What is Delaware and New Jersey?
Baltimore, Maryland was named after him
Who is Lord Baltimore?
raw goods mostly came from here
What are the 13 colonies?