Comparing Colonies
What were the 3 regions in colonial America?
New England, Middle, Southern
An area in which a group of people share a similar culture or language
cultural region
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How did the Columbian Exchange affect many Indigenous people in the Americas?
They died from diseases.
What best explains why different cultural regions formed in North America?
Groups adapted to the environments in which they settled.
How do scientists think people migrated from Asia to the Americas during the last Ice Age?
They traveled across a land bridge.
Why did people in the New England, Middle, and Southern colonies adapt different ways of life?
The regions had different geographies and resources.
An agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas
Mayflower Compact
Describe the relationship between the French and Indigenous groups
They were business partners.
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What is true about slavery in North America?
Enslaved Africans took the place of Indigenous workers.
What was a major motivation for European exploration?
profit
Which region specialized in cash crops?
Southern
An agreement made in 1215 listing the rights granted by King John to all free men of the kingdom
Magna Carta
What was an important economic activity of both the French and Dutch settlements?
fur trade
Why did Virginia replace indentured servants with enslaved Africans?
It provided a permanent source of labor.
What was a goal of the Spanish conquistadors who came to the Americas?
God, gold & glory
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What feature made the Southern colonies unique?
tobacco plantations
An act passed by Parliament in 1689 that limited the monarch's power by giving certain powers to Parliament and listing specific rights of the citizens
English Bill of Rights
Describe the relationship between the British colonies and the Native Americans.
Engaged in trade for profit. Often fought over land.
What was the role of women in colonial America?
Women were responsible for the household.
Describe the environment of the New England colonies.
harsh winters and rocky, hilly land
What were the names of the Southern colonies?
Virginia
South Carolina
North Carolina
Georgia
Maryland
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A revival of religious feeling and belief among Protestant Christians in the American colonies that began in the 1730s
Great Awakening
How did the Great Awakening impact colonial America?
boys - became apprentices, worked with father
girls - worked with mother in the house
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What was a goal of the Spanish conquistadors who came to the Americas?
to conquer a large empire for Spain