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Miller Colonization
US History Exploration/Colonization Unit
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who settled in the New England Colonies? | English Puritans and Pilgrims |
| Why did Puritans and Pilgrims settle in New England? | To escape religious persecution in England |
| What was the Pilgrims' "covenant community" based on? | The Mayflower Compact |
| Were Puritans tolerant or intolerant of other religions? | INtolerant (not accepting of other people's religious beliefs) |
| This was a major effect of exploration and colonization | redistribution of the world's population |
| From which continent did people come INVOLUNTARILY to the New World? | Africa |
| What was the Colombian (Biological) Exchange? | An exchange of agricultural products, animals and diseases between the Old World and the New World. |
| Which colonial region practiced a form of democracy through town hall meetings? | New England Colonies |
| Which colonial region was settled mainly by English, Dutch and German-speaking immigrants? | Middle Colonies |
| This colonial region included: MA, NH, RI, CT | New England Colonies |
| This colonial region included: NY, PA, DE, NJ | Middle Colonies |
| This colonial region included: MD, VA, NC, SC, GA | Southern Colonies |
| Why did settlers come to the Middle Colonies? | Economic Opportunity AND Religious Freedom |
| What was the main reason settlers came to the Southern Colonies? | Economic Opportunity |
| Who were the "cavaliers" ? | English nobility (aristocrats) who received large land grants in Virginia from the King of England |
| What is an indentured servant? | poor English immigrants who agreed to work on tobacco plantations for a period of time to pay off their debt for passage to the New World |
| When was Jamestown settled and by whom? | 1607; John Smith |
| What was the reason for settling Jamestown? | It was an economic venture sponsored by the Virginia Company of London |
| Name three main cash crops of Southern colonial America. | Tobacco, indigo, and rice |
| What was the first permanent English settlement in the New World? | Jamestown |
| What was the first permanent European settlement anywhere in the New World? | St. Augustine |
| What was the first elected representative assembly in the New World? | The Virginia House of Burgesses; it has operated continuously and today is called the Virginia General Assebly |
| Which European explores had violent confrontations with Native Americans ? | The English and Spanish |
| Which European explorers had more cooperative interactions with Native Americans in the New World? | The French |
| Which European nation colonized the Southwestern part of North America, the Caribbean, South and Central America? | The Spanish |
| Which European nation settled mostly in Canada? | The French |
| Where and when were Africans first brought to the English colonies against their will as slaves? | Jamestown; 1619 |
| Why was slave labor needed in Jamestown? | to work on Tobacco plantations |
| The African slave trade developed as a result of this. | plantation economies and labor shortages |
| What was the economy based on in the New England Colonies? | Shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small-scale subsistence farming |
| What was the economy based on in the Middle Colonies? | Ship-building, small scale farming, hunting and trading |
| What was the economy based on in the Southern Colonies? | in the East: large plantations that grew "cash crops"; in the Western Appalachian foothills: hunting, trading and small-scale farming. |
| What was the "Puritan Ethic" ? | a strong belief in the values of hard work and thrift (saving money) |
| What cities began to develop as large sea ports? | New York and Philadelphia |
| What characterized colonial economic life in all the British colonies? | a strong belief in private ownership of property and free enterprise |
| Society in this colonial region was based on religious standing. | New England Colonies |
| Society in this colonial region was based on religious tolerance and had a flexible social structure where a middle class emerged | Middle Colonies |
| Society in this colonial region was based on family status and ownership of land | Southern Colonies |
| This New England colony was founded by dissenters who were fleeing persecution by Puritans in Massachussetts | Rhode Island |
| This colonial region included middle class occupations, such as artisans, entrepreneurs (business owners) | Middle Colonies |
| Settlers in this colonial region had stronger ties to the King of England and the Church of England than the other colonies | Southern Colonies |
| What was "The Great Awakening"? | a religious revival movement that swept through Europe and the colonies during the mid-1700s; It led to Evangelical religions, like Baptist and Methodist |
| Town hall meetings in New England were a form of what type of democracy? | Direct democracy, where each person can be heard and vote |
| Which members of Southern colonies held leading roles in political life? | Planters, who owned large plantations |
| What was the "Middle Passage"? | The leg of the journey in the African slave trade that shipped slaves from Africa to the The New World. |
| The development of a slavery-based economy in the South would eventually lead to a conflict between what two groups? | The North and the South during the Civil War. |
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