Southern
Why were the Southern Colonies settled?
Money
Who were the original settlers of New York and what was the city called?
The Dutch
New Amsterdam
Why were the northern colonies settled?
Religion
Increase Exports, Decrease Imports
Wealth = Power
Need for colonies
The list above describes what?
Mercantilism
Who were the original workers of Southern colony plantations before being replaced by slaves?
Indentured Servants
What was the name of the first successful colony in the Virginia?
Jamestown
Which religious group established the colony of Pennsylvania?
Quakers
Which religious group settled the Northern colonies?
Puritans
List the 3 stops on the triangular trade route:
The Americas
Europe
Africa
This event indicated that American Colonists were not willing to accept a government that didn't protect ALL of their citizens and were willing to overthrow it.
Bacon's Rebellion
Who saved Jamestown with Tobacco?
John Rolfe
What types of crops were grown in the middle colonies?
Wheat and Corn
(NOT CASH CROPS)
What was the form of self-government in New England?
Town Meetings
What was the name of the route traveled by slaves on the triangular trade?
The Middle Passage
A series of deadly wars in the Northern colonies that wiped out most of the native population in the region, named after chief Metacom.
King Phillip's War
Tobacco, Indigo, and Cotton are all examples of what?
Cash Crops
Which middle colony treated natives fairly and paid them for their land?
Pennsylvania
List at least two forms of income that the New England colonies made money from:
Trade
Fishing
Whaling
Lumber
Iron Ore
Plants
The list above describes what type of resources?
Raw Materials
Policy of healthy neglect toward the American colonies in which American business and trade was not restricted by the English to make more money.
(Backfired terribly)
Salutary Neglect
What was the name of the Legislative Government in the South?
The House of Burgesses
Which physical features made New York an ideal location for trade and finance?
Deep Ports and Harbors
Who was banished from Massachusetts for radical thinking and went on to found Rhode Island for religious tolerance?
Roger Williams
Goods could only travel on British Ships
Goods could only enter British Ports
Goods could only be traded with Britain
The list above describes what?
The Navigation Acts
Colonists no longer looked to large figureheads to tell them how to live their lives.
"If we don't need the pope to worship, we don't need the king to live.“
What event caused this anti-British sentiment?
The Great Awakening