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European Colonization of North America

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What were the three main reasons why Spanish explorers established colonies in the Americas. Weath, to spread Christianity, and adventure.
The first French colonists in North America were mostly interested in? Fishing, Trapping, and Trading.
Early European explorers searched North America's coast for? A shorter route for ships to reach Asia.
The Virginia Company established the House of Burgesses to? Allow voters to elect representatives to make laws.
The Separatists established a colony because they wanted to? Worship freely.
The Mayflower Compact showed that the Pilgrims were? Aware of the need to make their own government.
The Plymouth Colony set an important precedent in that it? It was founded so that settlers could worship freely.
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut influenced the development of representative government in America by? Expanding the right to vote to all men who owned property.
The main reason the colony of New Jersey was originally formed was to? Govern more easily than one large New York colony.
A free-market economy developed in New Jersey by? Proprietors that allowed settlers to farm or run businesses as they pleased.
William Penn influenced self-government in America by? Strengthening it , having a constitution and general assembly.
William Penn attracted so many people to his colony by ? Advertising the religious freedom offered in the colony.
The colony Lord Baltimore established in Maryland encouraged? Religious freedom for Roman Catholics.
The most significant difference between the northern and southern Carolina settlements was? that the southern settlement grew rich on rice while poorer farmers in the north grew tobacco.
The increase in the number of enslaved Africans arriving in America was largely due to? The development of the plantation system.
_____ ____were the most popular among important people of the colonial era. Family Paintings.
___ _____was the kind of story particularly popular in the colonial era! Captivity Stories.
The Great Awakening encouraged? The development of self-rule.
Benjamin Franklin influenced daily life in the colonies by? using reason to improve the world around him.
The original purpose of colleges in colonial America was? To educate ministers.
According to the theory of mercantilism, a country is strengthened by? Exporting more than it imports.
_____ was an important product from the West Indies that was at the center of the triangular trade route Molasses.
William Blackstone's ideas? Promoted an independent legal system in the colonies.
The English Bill of Rights increased protections for? Individuals.
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