The Southern Colonies
What denied enslaved Africans basic human rights once they arrived in the Americas?
Harsh slave codes.
How did most colonists make their living?
Most colonists made their living by farming
How did the Navigation Acts benefit the colonies?
By giving them a secure market to buy and sell goods.
Which groups of people explored the Americas?
A. The Vikings explored the eastern coast of North America.
B. Asians continued to cross the Bering Strait.
C. Polynesians may have reached the Americas.
What is the Northwest Passage?
a waterway through or around North America
What were the two reasons why Georgia was founded?
A. as a place for debtors
B. Spain did not expand northward from Florida
What cultural traditions were brought to the colonies?
Art, literature, and music.
What products were bought in the West Indies to make rum?
Sugar and molasses
Why did the Queen of Spain demand that Columbus return in chains?
Columbus turned out to be a bad governor and treated the people he ruled harshly.
What is Representative government?
A government in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.
A law was passed in Maryland that made sure all Christians had religious freedom.
What Was the Act of Toleration?
What were the effects of the Great Awakening?
A. Led to the rise of many new churches.
B. Religious tolerance
C. Strengthened democracy and independence.
Who was not protected under the English Bill of Rights?
Women, African Americans, and American Indians.
Why did Magellan not return to Spain?
He was killed in the Philippine Islands.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A framework for governing Plymouth Colony was signed by all male settlers.
Why was the Backcountry more democratic than the Tidewater?
A. Backcountry treated each other as equals.
B. Tidewater wealthy landowners were divided from the poor people
What was the main purpose of the first American colleges?
To educate men to become church ministers.
What led to the rise of representative government in the colonies?
The Magna Carta
Why are crops such as potatoes, corn, and tomatoes so important?
Crops first grown in the Americas account for almost half of the world's food supply today
What is the English Bill of Rights?
A constitutional law enacted in 1689 that guaranteed freedoms to the English people and limited the powers of the monarch.
How was the labor of enslaved people used to expand the Southern Colonies?
A. Enslaved people were used to working on rice and indigo plantations in South Carolina.
B. Slavery continued to be promoted by the expansion of rice and tobacco plantations
C. The Southern Colonies depended heavily on the labor of enslaved people.
How did Benjamin Franklin want to use reason and logic?
To improve the world around him.
What factors led to the rise of representative government in the colonies?
A. Magna Carta limited the power of the king or queen and gave more rights to English subjects.
B. American colonies established elected assemblies. More white men were allowed to vote in the colonies than in England.
C. England established the English Bill of Rights.
How did the Columbian Exchange change life for people in both the Eastern and Western Hemispheres?
A. New foods, such as potatoes, corn, oranges, and figs, were exchanged between the two hemispheres.
B. Animals such as pigs and cattle were brought to the Americas from Europe.
C. The exchange also negatively affected people, since new diseases were spread, mainly among the Native Americans.
D. Enslaved Africans also suffered from being forced into slavery and taken to strange lands.
What is the Slave code?
Laws setting rules for enslaved people's behavior, denying them basic human rights and treating them not as human beings but as property.