European Exploration and Colonization #1
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100
The reason for this country to colonize North America: To profit from trading furs and other goods.
What is France?
100
Economic policy where the mother country profits from its colonies raw materials.
Mercantilism
100
What Year was Jamestown Founded?
What year was Plymouth founded?
What year was Massachusetts Bay Founded?
1607
1620
1630
100
Why was Maryland founded?
As a refugee for catholics?
100
What is the headright system?
This system gave settlers land in exchange for bringing laborers to the colonies.
200
A global transfer of people, goods, ideas, and diseases.
What is the Columbian Exchange?
200
What Example of Representative government am i describing?
- 1st representative assembly in the American colonies
- An agreement that established the idea of self-government
- First written constitution in the colonies
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
200
what accounts for the growth of ship building in the New England and Middle colonies?
They had many dense forests
200
Quakerism was what kind of religious movement?
Christian religious movement
200
What was were the middle colonies known as?
The Bread Basket Colonies?
300
They allowed investors to share in both the profits and the risks of trading voyages.
What are joint-stock companies?
300
Which region is described as having fertile soil, long growing seasons, plantation system (cash crops) , and warm climate?
Southern Colonies
300
What was the purpose of the Magna Carta?
Force the King to follow laws limiting his power.
300
Why was the heavy use of slavery needed in the colonies?
The plantation system
300
The group of investors that formed the joint stock company that sponsored the Jamestown colony
Virginia Company of London/Joint Stock Company
400
Why did Quakers immigrate to Pennsylvania?
To escape religious persecution.
400
What was one important result of the encounter between Europeans and Native Americans?
New diseases were spread to Native American populations.
400
What Colony was founded for the quakers?
Pennsylvania
400
What is a representative government?
a system where citizens elect representatives to make decisions and govern on their behalf.
400
Pilgrim agreement for self-government and majority rule
Mayflower Compact
500
What was the primary reason for finding the Virginia Colony?
Economic
500
Which Colonial Region had hard rocky land (soil), cold climate, and long winters and Small Family Farms?
New England
500
What was the Great Awakening? What kind of revival?
It was a Religious Revival
500
Why did the Puritans travel to North America?
Religious Freedom.
500
WHo founded Rhode island?
Roger williams
600
What is the reason for writing the Mayflower Compact in 1620 by Pilgrims?
Self-government (social contract)
600
What does this image represent?
The Triangle Trade
600
What Impact did the Great Awakening have on the colonies?
Promoted unity among the colonies, fostering individualism and questioning authority causing people to choose there own Pastors than leading to them choosing government leaders.
600
Why was a tradition of self government needed in the colonies?
The colonies were too far away from England and could not enforce british laws effectively.
600
a series of British parliamentary laws passed starting in 1651 to restrict colonial trade and strengthen mercantilism by controlling colonial commerce and ensuring it benefited the British Empire.
The navigation Acts