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Exploration Colonial
Topics for Age of Exploration and The colonial Era
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Christianity | The religion that Europeans wanted to spread around the world |
| Asia | The continent that Europeans wanted to reach to establish a water trade route |
| Glory | The reason that European powers competed for territory in North America. |
| Spain | The country that established Catholic missions to convert Native Americans to the Catholic faith. |
| France | This country focused on fur trading with the Native Americans |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement that was founded for economic reasons |
| Plymouth | An English settlement that was founded for religious reasons, they were escaping religious persecution. |
| Geographic Characteristics for New England colonies | long cold winters, rocky soil, rivers, forests, natural harbors |
| Geographic characteristics for Middle colonies | moderate climate, fertile soil, a growing season |
| Geographic characteristics for Southern colonies | long growing season, short winters, rich fertile soil. swamps |
| Economic activities for New England colonies | ship building, whaling, fishing, trade |
| Economic activities for Middle Colonies | farming-grew grains such as oats, rye, wheat, barley, know as the "Breadbasket" colony, raised livestock, mining, craftsman |
| Economic activities for Southern Colonies | plantation system, cash crops, slavery |
| Puritans | Religious group that settled in Massachusetts in New England. They came to escape religious persecution but later persecuted others for having different beliefs. They forced Roger Williams to leave the colony. |
| Pilgrims | They established the Plymouth colony. They created a social contract called the Mayflower Compact that established self government in the colonies. |
| Catholics | They settled in Maryland. When Protestants outnumbered them the colony passed the Toleration Act at the Maryland Assembly to provide religious freedom to all Christians. |
| Quakers | They settled in Pennsylvania. They were pacifists and opposed slavery. |
| Representative Government | A type of government where people elect someone to represent their interest |
| Reasons for the development of representative government | distance from England, salutary neglect, slow communication with England, slow travel between colonies and England |
| Virginia House of Burgesses | First representative assembly in the colonies. The assembly served as a model for other colonial legislatures. |
| Mayflower Compact | Created by the Pilgrims as a social contract that established self government in Plymouth. |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | Thomas Hooker created a form of representative government to extend voting rights to non church members. |
| Agriculture | the type of economy did the South develop |
| plantations | the type of southern farms used slave labor to cultivate cash crops |
| profit | economic incentive motivated plantation owners to cultivate cash crops using enslaved labor |
| hard field labor and housework | tasks did enslaved African Americans of the South perform |
| trade work such as carpenters, shoemaker, | tasks did freed African Americans in the North perform |
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