Middle Colonies
What cash crops were grown in the middle colonies- hint: Breadbasket
Rye, Wheat, Barley
The Act of Toleration did what?
Provided Religious Freedom for all Christians
Define: Gentry
Highest ranked members of the social class, this was wealthy merchants, ministers, planters, and royal officials
What is mercantilism?
When a colony benefits it's home country- the home country controls the economy of the colony
What were the three main reasons why Spanish explorers established colonies in the Americas
gold, God, and glory
Another name for German-speaking protestants, Amish, and Mennonote settlers in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Dutch
What cash crops were grown in the south?
Rice, Tobacco, Indigo
Explain how life was different for the women of the back country
There was no seperation or gentered jobs in the back country. Work was based on survival, harvesting, hunting was everyone's responsibility
What is the difference between and import and an export
Import- Goods coming into an area
Export- Goods going out/being sold
Why did the French, Dutch, and English first begin to explore North America
to search for a Northwest Passage to Asia
Pennsylvania
The reason that James Oglethorpe founded a colony in Georgia for debtors was to solve a _________ problem
Economic/Debt
What was the Great awakening?
A religious movement with emotional preaching and personal faith.
What did the Navigation Acts claim?
No other countries could trade with the colonies, and cotton and tobacco could only be sold to England,
What major crop improved the economy in the colony of Jamestown
Tobacco
Thousands of Europeans settled in New Jersey because it was a __________ where they could avoid war and poverty.
Haven
Large farms that relied on slave labor to produce cash crops are called
plantations
The Puritan belief that all Christians have a duty to study the Bible directly led to
Many New Engalnders teaching their children to read
Trade pattern linking Africa, west Indies and north America-
Triangular Trade
What kind of story was particularly popular in the colonial era
Captivity Stories
__________ became a strong belief because many colonists viewed slaves as inferior to white people.
Racism
Why were the areas of the Tidewater and Back country so different?
differences in the characteristics of their enviorments.
The first colleges were used primarly to train
Clergy (church officals)
Education in the colonies came in which of these forms?
Dame schools, colleges, apprenticeships
The English Bill of Rights increased protections for
Colonists