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Colonization Unit 2
8th Grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why were the Southern colonies settled? | For religious freedom and land |
| Why were the Middle colonies settled? | Religious tolerance and economic gain |
| Why were the New England colonies settled? | Religious activities |
| Who settled in the Southern colonies? | English colonists |
| Who settled in the Middle colonies? | Settlers from Finland, Ireland, Scotland, Germany, and Sweden |
| Who settled in the New England colonies? | Pilgrims and Puritans |
| What were the economic activities that took place in the Southern colonies? | Cash crops, tobacco, rice, cotton, indigo |
| What economic activities took place in the middle colonies? | Farming and manufacturing |
| What economic activities took place in the New England colonies? | Fishing, trading, and ship building |
| What religions were practiced in the southern colonies? | Presbyterian and Baptist |
| What religions were practiced in the middle colonies? | Quakers, Jews, Catholics |
| What religions were practiced in the New England colonies? | Protestant/Separatists |
| What was government like in the southern colonies? | Had a governor, council of advisers, and an elected assembly |
| What was government like in the middle colonies? | English rule with attempts at democracy |
| What was New England's government like? | Mayflower Compact. Governed through elected officials, town meetings, self-government |
| Who was New York named after? | King Charles' brother |
| New York became a place for ____________and ____________ | commerce trading |
| Why were settlers attracted to New Jersey? | Fertile farmland and other natural resources |
| Thousands of __________________immigrated to New Jersey. | Europeans |
| In 1702, New Jersey became a __________ _____________. | royal colony |
| Immigrants came to New Jersey because it offered what 3 things? | work, land, and a safe haven |
| Who founded Pennsylvania? | William Penn |
| Maryland was owned by ____________ ________________. | Lord Baltimore |
| The Back Country built _________ and started ____________. | churches schools |
| Crops grown and sold in the Back Country were: | beans, corn, and peas |
| Farms in the Back Country were _____________. | smaller |
| People who settled in Tidewater liked the ____________weather. | warmer |
| Crops grown and sold in Tide Water were: | tobacco and rice |
| The people of Tidewater had their own __________along the rivers. | docks |
| The first slaves arrived in ____________. | 1619 |
| _____________worked the crops and tended the livestock. | Slaves |
| ____________ ______________founded Georgia. | James Oglethorpe |
| ___________ _____________was a Spanish conquistador who set sail for Mexico in search of gold and caused the fall of the Aztec empire. | Hernando Cortes |
| Priest who fought to protect the rights of the Native Americans and started the slave trade. | Bartolome de La Casas |
| A young soldier and explorer who helped save the Jamestown colony by setting up rules forcing the colonists to work if they wished to eat after seeing that they weren't planting enough crops. | John Smith |
| One of many women active in religious life who led the fight for religious freedom. | Anne Hutchinson |
| A Puritan who challenged the leaders of Massachusetts and believed in religious tolerance. | Roger Williams |
| _____________ _______________led a group of settlers to set up a colony in Connecticut and increased voting rights through the Fundamental Orders. | Thomas Hooker |
| ____________ ______________a lawyer and Puritan who was chosen as the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. | John Winthrop |
| The _________ _____ __________was passed to provide religious freedom for all Christians because it was feared that the Protestants might try to deprive Catholics of their right to worship. | Act of Toleration |
| Natives were replaced by slaves as a labor force because Las Casas said: | Africans were less likely to die from European diseases and were used to hard farm work. |
| The ___________ _____ ___________signified the beginning of representative government in the English colonies. | House of Burgess |
| The House of Burgess was significant because it allowed voters to _________representatives to make _______for them. | elect laws |
| _______________was established so Catholics could practice their religion freely. | Maryland |
| _____________was established as place where debtors, people who owed money, who could not pay it back could make a fresh start. | Georgia |
| The Southern colonies enjoyed warner weather and a longer growing season. Land owners needed help learning how to grow new crops and farm their large plots of land. So ________were brought to North America. | slaves |
| __________ was able to defeat the Aztecs by winning the support of _________who resented Aztec rule. | Cortes Indians |
| The Pilgrims knew they would be settling outside of Virginia's boundaries. Not all colonists on the Mayflower were _________. They came together and wrote the Mayflower Compact and pledged to ________themselves. | Pilgrims unite |
| A French colonist who lived in the lands beyond French settlements as a fur trapper. | Couriers de Bois |
| A _______________was a Spanish explorer who claimed lands in America for Spain. | Conquistador |
| __________was a town in Spanish colonies. | Pueblo |
| A person born in Spain's American colonies to Spanish parents: | Creole |
| A person mixed of Spanish and Indian background: | Mestizo |
| A _____________ is a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company. | charter |
| In a ______________Government, voters elect representatives to make laws for them. | Representative |
| The mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs is called____________. | persecution |
| ______________ ________________means letting others practice their own beliefs. | Religious Tolerance |
| An English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for yearly payment was called a___________ ___________. | Propriety Colony |
| Protestant reformers who believed in equality of all people were called __________________. | Quakers |
| A __________ ____________was under direct control of the English crown. | Royal Colony |
| A ___________ crop is a crop sold for money at market. | cash |
| A plant valued for its use as a blue dye was_________. | indigo |
Created by:
Mrs. Logan
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