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Question | Answer |
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Charter | A legal document that grants rights to people or businesses |
New England colonist education | All children need to be able to read the Bible |
Who could vote? | Only Male Church going members could vote |
England pays little attention to the colonies this leads to | The growth of representative government in the colonies in the late 1600 |
John Locks Enlightenment ideas | People are born with natural rights |
New England Primer | is a pain that many of the children were named after important religious figures |
Navigation Acts | England got the better deal on trade with the colonies and this made the colonist very angry Tangle trade |
What religion did people practice in the New England Colonies | Protestant: Puritans and Pilgrims Maine not religiously tolerant Rhode Island: Roger Williams founded the colony. Religious tolerant |
What religion did people practice in the Middle Colonies | Religious Tolerance -diverse-Puritans, Jews, French, Huguenots, Catholics, etc |
What religion did people practice in the Southern Colonies | Protestant/Maryland- English Catholics Toleration Act of 1649: illegal to restrict rights of Christian groups |
What wars did they have in the New England Colonies | No wars |
What wars did they have in the Middle Colonies | English conquered Amsterdam |
What wars did they have in the Southern Colonies | Conflict with Native Americans Bacon Rebellion: Wanted to be able to take the Native American land and was against trade with them |
What was the New England Colonies land like | Difficult climate for growing/Rocky Soil |
What was the Middle Colonies land like | Good climate for farming/Philadelphia and New York City are major port cities |
What was the Southern Colonies land like | Good climate for growing/Cash Crops like Tobacco, Sugar, Corn, and Indigo |
What groups lived in the colony of New England | English/Had to read the English Bible |
What groups lived in the Middle Colonies | Dutch, Swedes, Finns, Scots, English |
What groups lived in the Southern Colonies | England/Carolines majority population slaves/Georgia debtors colonies |
What was the government like in the New England Colonies | John Winthrop was the leader of Massachusetts Male landowning church member could only vote in Massachusetts Fundamental Orders of Connecticut: All men not just church members could vote Thomas Hooker: Connecticut |
What was the government like in the Middle Colonies | William Penn: Leader of Penn/George Carteret, Lord John Berkley- Proprietors of New Jersey/Duke of York proprietors of New York |
What was the government like in the Southern Colonies | Slave codes- laws to control slaves |
What jobs were done in the New England Colonies | Oil, Traded local goods, Fishing and Whaling, and Shipbuilding |
What jobs were done in the Middle Colonies | Fur Trade New York and New Jersey Grew grains: Wheat, Barley, Oats Slave Labor: Mostly relied on there servants to do the work |
What jobs were done in the Southern Colonies | Large Farms: Cash crops like Tobacco, Rice, and Indigo Indentured servants and slave labor |
What were the Salem Witch Trials? | 1. King William’s War resulted in people fleeing to Salem, straining its resources 2. Many people disliked the greedy Reverend Parris, the new minister of Salem 3. Two young girls named Elizabeth and Abigail accused three women of witchcraft |
What were Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God? | He was a Teacher, pastor, missionary, and college president who carried Puritan ideas and beliefs into the eighteenth century |
What did Jonathan Edwards speech tell about? | Raise fear in the hearts of those who were not sincere in their beliefs |