Exploration
What are the 3 Gs?
Gold God Glory
The three colonial regions are ____________, ____________, and ____________.
New England, Middle, Southern
What type of political system did the New England colonies primarily use?
representative (or self-) government
traveling to a new place to settle there
colonization
What do the following three have in common: The Mayflower Compact, The Virginia House of Burgesses, the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
examples of representative government
The three main European countries that settled America are: ___________, ____________, and ____________.
Spain, France, England
Why was Georgia founded?
Fresh start for debtors
Which colonies were known as the "breadbasket colonies"? Why?
Middle colonies; they exported so much wheat
crops that are mass produced for profit
cash crops
What colony is known as the Lost Colony?
Roanoke
The French primarily profited from what economic activity?
Fur trapping/fur tade
What's the name of the oldest English settlement, founded in 1609?
Jamestown
__________ in the Southern colonies relied on _____________.
Plantations; slavery
farming to support one's family, not for profit
subsistence farming
New England had natural __________ that made fishing and shipping ideal economic pursuits.
harbors
What disease wiped out millions of Native Americans?
Smallpox
Which colony was founded as a safe haven for Quakers?
Pennsylvania
The __________ settled in Plymouth, while the __________ founded Massachusetts Bay Colony.
Pilgrims; Puritans
the economic system where colonies are meant to benefit the home country
mercantilism
What group helped establish the colony of Maryland in the 1630s?
English Catholics seeking religious freedom
One initial reason Europeans explored the New World was that they were looking for ____________________________________.
The Northwest Passage (a mythical water route to Asia)
The Mayflower Compact
- Who wrote it?
- Why?
- What did it say/do?
- What key word would we use to describe what they did?
Pilgrims
Keeping order and maintaining the community
Settlers would create and agree to follow laws for the good of all
Representative government
Explain the two different reasons for the founding of both Connecticut and Rhode Island.
Connecticut was founded by Thomas Hooker on the principle of limited government. Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams to promote religious freedom/tolerance.
the unofficial British policy where certain laws were loosely enforced on the American colonies; promoted the independence of the colonies
salutary neglect
Name all of the 13 original colonies.
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Virginia, Maryland
Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, New York
New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts