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13 colonies review
Benhamin Sherman 13 Colonies Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who was John Smith | Leader of Jamestown colony. Helped colony survive from diseases caused by insects. |
| Who was William Penn | Always treated Native American with respect. Leader of the Pennsylvania Colony. |
| Who was Thomas Hooker | "Father of Connecticut" |
| Who was James Oglethrope | Leader of the George Colony. Always believed in helping the poor. Made a home for debtors. |
| What do Quakers believe? | That all people are equal in God's eyes. |
| Who were considered only 2/3 of a person. | Enslaved Africans |
| Who was useful as a slave because they were not as likely to be killed by diseases? | African Americans |
| What were some hardships that people in New England (the puritan / pilgrims) had to face? | Very harsh winters. |
| Who helped the pilgrims survive? | Native Americans. |
| Who were the first European Colony in the area we now call New York? | Dutch |
| What document established laws that would be just and apply to all. | Mayflower Compact |
| What began a tradition of Representative Government in the English colonies? | The Virginia House of Burgesses |
| List all the 13 colonies | New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey New York Maryland North Carolina Georgia South Caronlina Virginia |
| List all three regions | English Colony Middle Colony Southern Colony (Eat Mouthfuls Snow) |
| List the Middle Colonies | Delaware Pennsylvania New Jersey New York |
| List the Southern Colonies | Maryland North Carolina Georgia South Caronlina Virginia |
| List the English Colonies | New Hampshire Massachusetts Connecticut Rhode Island |
| Characteristics of the Middle Colonies | (safe haven) Religion: Quakers Climate: warm summers and cold winters Economy: Mercantilism, craftsman, sailors, unskilled workers, little farming / plantations |
| Characteristics of the English Colonies | Religion: Puritan (strict) Climate: Cold Economy: traded goods for fishing, ship building, triangular slave trade. **""Relied on the Atlantic Ocean"" |
| Characteristics of the Southern Colonies | Religion: Baptists / Methodists, church of England, Anglican Climate: hot warm moist climate Economy: farmers of cash crops of indigo, tar, turpentine, fish and forest, slave trade |
| The "power purse" was important to colonial legislature because it allowed the legislature to check the power of the governor. | Colonial Legislature |
| Roanoke | First Settlement in North American the Europeans established. |
| 1607 was significant because of what reason | 1607; first successful colony in North America called Jamestown |
| When was the declaration of Independence | 1776; document stating that the 13 colonies were a free and independent nation |
| What doe the growing season mean? | a time of year that crops grow |
| What does export mean? | a product sent to another country to be sold |
| What does import mean? | a product brought into a country |
| Geographic Condition defines what with the three regions? | The difference between the three regions of the British Colonies |
| Features of the Southern colonies | Few cities, plantations, long growing seasons, and tidewater areas |
| New England, Middle, and Southern | The 13 British colonies were broken up into these three geographic regions |
| What was an Indenture servant | someone who sold their labor in exchange for the cost of the trip from Europe to the colonies. "works without wages to pay off what they owe" |
| the main export produced in the southern colonies | tobacco and rice |
| the study of the world's people and places | Geography |
| New England colonies geographic conditions | trade, short growing season, shipbuilding, fishing, rocky soil |
| New York | not a Southern colony |
| Geographic conditions/features of Middle colonies | navigable rivers, large farms, moderate growing season, and trade |
| What is a plantation | a large farm on which crops are raised. |
| Life in the New England Region center around this | water |
| These are the 3 major jobs in the New England Region | Fishing, Whaling Shipbuilding |
| This is the reason why colonies in the New England Region were formed | religious freedom |
| This how people got their food in New England | fishing |
| This is the 1st Constitution in the Colonies | Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
| Who created the fundamental order of conneticut | Thomas Hooker |
| This was the founder of Rhode Island who founded Rhode Island for Religious Freedom | Roger Williams |
| This woman questioned the Puritan Church and was kicked out of Massachusetts | Anne Hutchinson |
| Life in the Southern Region centered around this | Agriculture |
| This is what the farms produced in the Southern Region | Cash Crops |
| Someone who is forced to work on a plantation down South | slaves |
| These 3 things are unique to ONLY the Southern Region | Long Growing Season, Tobacco, & Slaves |
| Transferring of slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, American colonies and the European colonial powers | Triangular Trade |
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