Countries and Reasons for Exploring
Religion(God), Wealth (Gold), Expanding the Empire (Glory)What were the 3 main reasons for European exploration?
Religion(God), Wealth (Gold), Expanding the Empire (Glory)
What cashcrop helped Jamestown survive economically?
Tabacco trade
Lumber, fishing, shipbuilding
Who established Pennyslvania for the Quakers?
William Penn
What is the name of extra large farms in the southern colonies that used slave labor and planted cash crops?
Plantations
What country sent conquistadors to find gold then build missions?
Spain
What colony was established in 1607 and what did they search?
Jamestown, Virginia
Looking for gold but didn't find any.
What colonies were also called the Bread Basket?
Middle Colonies
What explorer accidentally discovered the Americas and in what year?
Columbus 1492
What was the 1st written constitution of the 13 Colonies?
The Fundatmental Orders of Connecticut
Where was Columbus supposed to land and why?
Asia for the trade of spices
Pilgrims landed in Plymouth,Massachusetts in 1620 to escape what?
Religious persecution
Southern colonies had an economy based on plantations and slavery. What geographic characteristics allowed this?
Warm and rainy growing season, very fertile soil.
The founder of Connecticut who started the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut (the 1st written Constitution for the 13 colonies)
Thomas Hooker
What was the 1st representative govt. where representatives were chosen in the 13 colonies?
Virginia House of Burgesses
What country claimed land in modern day Canada and down the Mississippi River and traded beaver fur with natives.
French
What was the name of the ship the Pilgrims were on?
The Mayflower
What reason was Maryland establish for Puritans?
Spain sent these 2 Conquistadors to conqour the Aztec tribe in Mexico and the Inca tribe in South America.
Hernan Cortez and Fransisco Pizzaro
What was the 1st self govt. of the 13 colonies?
Pilgrims/Puritains wrote the Mayflower Comapct
What land did England and Spain claim in the Americas? Answer for Spain must include names of current states.
England- Atlantic coast
Spain- Most of South America, Central America (including Mexico), and the Southwest US (Texas, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Florida)
What did Pilgrims create when coming to the Americas?
Mayflower Copact- the 1st self government
What are Quakers and what colony did they live in?
1st anti slavery religious group in Pennsylvania
Ann Hutchinson and Roger Williams were religiously persecuted in Massachusetts and started what colony?
Rhode Island
Define merchantilism.
More money= more power, so countries compete to have control of trade to make more $$$
Britain controlled the merchantilism of the 13 colonies.