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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| what was the Northwest Passage? | A water route across North America |
| What were some of the reasons jamestown almost failing? | Bad location, poor leadership, starvation, unrealistic expectations |
| What was the main reason that the virginia colony survived? | They began growing tobacco for sale |
| Why did the Puritans come to new england? | To escape religious persecution |
| How did the English settlements affect Native American? | It threatened their way of life |
| What caused King Philips War? | The Algonquin Indians wanted to drive the English out of North America |
| What colonies made up the southern colonies? | Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, Georgia |
| What group of people settled New York first? | Dutch |
| What did the colonies provide for New England? | The supplied England with raw materials and bought the English goods |
| How did England policy of Salutary Neglect benefit the colonists? | Allowed the colonies economic freedom |
| What was the Great Awakening? | A series of religious revivals in the colonies |
| What area was the first to promote public education? | New England colonies |
| Where did slaves work in Virginia and Maryland? | In tobacco fields |
| What was the function of the colony under the mercantilist system? | To provide raw materials |
| What were the roles of women in the colonies? | Keep the household running smoothly |
| In what colonies were the European and African cultures blended? | Virginia and Maryland |
| Why did the slaves rebel? | Because of the harsh laws controlling the African American’s activities |
| Why did Native Americans move west? | Because the colonists kept moving west |
| What groups were interested in the Ohio River Valley? | The British wanted the area but the French and Indians were there as well |
| Why was there a religious revival (Great Awakening)? | Because the colonists lacked faith |
| Bacon’s Rebellion- | Nathaniel Bacon leads an army to help rescue some western settler who were attacked by Indians. Bacon’s army later burns down Jamestown and controls most of Virginia. |
| House of Burgesses- | The legislature in the Virginia Colony |
| Great Migration- | The mass influx of immigrants from Europe to the American colonies |
| Mayflower Compact- | A set of laws that the Pilgrims came up with to govern themselves by. |
| Pequot War- | The Pequot Indians of Connecticut attacked the local settlers. The settlers responded by killing all but a handful of the Pequots. |
| Puritan- | Settlers in the New England colonies who left England for religious freedom |
| Great Awakening- | A series of mass revivals throughout the colonies in an effort to get people focused back on God. |
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