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Colonies Review
Question | Answer |
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William Penn was a Quaker who founded | Pennsylvania |
This group supported religious freedom | Quakers |
Colony for debtors; colonists were also hoping this colony would be a "buffer" between English colonies and the Spanish | Georgia |
Originally called New Amsterdam & settled by the Dutch | New York |
1st permanent English settlement in North America led by John Smith | Jamestown |
the "lost" colony | Roanoke |
Massachusetts was controlled by this group | Puritans |
1st written constitution | The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut |
Someone who worked for another to pay off passage to North America | indentured servant |
separated Middle Colonies & Southern Colonies | Mason-Dixon Line |
Cash crop of Jamestown | tobacco |
purchased from the Native Americans by the Dutch East India Company | Manhattan Island |
this country owned most of the land around the Great Lakes and west of Appalachian Mountains | France |
religious toleration | allowing others to freely practice their religion |
how colonists transported goods | waterways |
representative government in Jamestown | House of Burgesses |
written aboard the Mayflower, this agreement between the Pilgrims and the the strangers started the idea of self-government | Mayflower Compact |
colony settled by the Pilgrims | Plymouth |
colony established by Roger Williams to separate church & state | Rhode Island |
colony established by the Calvert family as a haven for persecuted Catholics | Maryland |
New England Colonies | Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut |
Middle Colonies | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware |
Southern Colonies | Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
mercantilism | trading system that benefits the mother country; mother country tells colonies what to make |
Triangular Trade | trade from Europe, Americas, and Africa |
Middle Passage | brought slaves from West Africa to the West Indies |
imports | goods going into a country |
exports | goods leaving a country |