Exploration
These three motives for European exploration are remembered as the “3 Gs.”
What are Gold, God, and Glory?
This is an official document granting rights or permission to establish a colony.
What is a charter?
These were the three major colonial regions.
What are New England, the Middle Colonies, and the Southern Colonies?
The Southern colonies’ long growing season and fertile land encouraged large farms and plantations focused on these profitable products.
What are cash crops?
Written aboard the Mayflower, this agreement established rules for self-government in Plymouth.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
This exchange moved plants, animals, foods, people, diseases, and ideas between the Old World and the Americas.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
This business organization allowed many investors to share the cost and risk of establishing colonies.
What is a joint-stock company?
Rocky soil, forests, a cold climate, and a short growing season describe this colonial region.
What are the New England Colonies?
Examples of major Southern cash crops included tobacco, rice, and this blue-dye crop.
What is indigo?
Jamestown was founded mainly for economic profit, while Plymouth was founded largely for this reason.
What is religious freedom / religious reasons?
One major result of the Columbian Exchange was the spread of this, which devastated many Native American populations.
What are diseases (such as smallpox)?
Jamestown settlers faced hunger, disease, unsafe water, conflict, and this problem: many settlers were not prepared to do the hard work needed to survive.
What is a lack of skilled/prepared workers (or unwillingness to work)?
This type of farming means growing mainly enough food to feed yourself or your family, and it was important in New England because large-scale farming was difficult.
What is subsistence farming?
The Southern colonies had relatively few large cities because plantations were spread out and often shipped goods directly using these types of waterways.
What are rivers?
This colonial region attracted especially diverse immigration, creating a mixture of cultures and religions.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Many Native American groups preferred trading with this European nation because its traders generally focused more on trade and being friendly with the Native Americans, and less on taking large amounts of land.
What is France?
The Virginia Company offered settlers a plot of land in exchange for them paying their own way to the New World.
Headright
Fertile soil, navigable rivers, and a moderate climate helped this region become known for farming and grain production.
What are the Middle Colonies?
Under this economic system, colonies existed to provide raw materials and markets that increased the wealth and power of the mother country.
What is mercantilism?
This phrase names the forced Atlantic voyage endured by enslaved Africans as part of the transatlantic slave trade.
What is the Middle Passage?
This religious movement challenged the Catholic Church and helped create new Christian denominations, contributing to religious migration and colonization.
What is the Protestant Reformation?
These English Separatists sailed to the New World seeking religious freedom and established Plymouth Colony.
Who were the Pilgrims?
Warm weather, fertile soil, long growing seasons, and flat land describe this colonial region.
What are the Southern Colonies?
This Atlantic trading system connected Europe, Africa, and the Americas in three major legs.
What is triangular trade?
This document is important because it established a written framework for representative government and are often described as the first written constitution in America.
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?