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Unit 1: EXP & COL
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Reasons for exploration | wealth, religion, expanding empires, claim territory, new trade routes to Asia through Northwest Passage |
| claimed Florida, Texas, California; built missions | Spain |
| claimed land in New World to profit from fur trading | France |
| rocky soil, cold climate, harbors, fishing, lumber, and shipbuilding; founded for religious freedom | New England Colonies |
| to escape religious persecution, Roger Williams left Massachusetts and founded Rhode Island seeking.... | religious toleration |
| New England colony; Puritans/Pilgrims founded for religious freedom; Boston major port city | Massachusetts |
| rich farmland, moderate climate, grew oats, wheat, grain, and raised livestock | Middle Colonies |
| "Bread Basket" | Middle Colonies |
| 1st anti-slavery group who lived in Pennsylvania | Quakers |
| fertile soil, warm climate, cash crops | Southern colonies |
| provided slave labor for plantations because the colonies lacked the necessary labor force to harvest cash crops | Transatlantic Slave Trade |
| founded mainly for economic reasons; cash crop was tobacco - 1607 | Jamestown, Virginia |
| founded for Catholics seeking religious freedom | Maryland |
| Reasons for growth of representative/self-government | distance from Britain, Pilgrim’s Mayflower Compact (social contract),Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, First Great Awakening, John Locke |
| British controlled colonial trade; angered colonists | mercantilism |
| First colonial agreement among the people to abide by the rules | Mayflower Compact |
| First colonial law-making group & First elected colonial government - 1619 | Virginia House of Burgesses |
| Anti-Slavery Group in early colonial times - considered the first abolitionists - as they spoke out against the evils of slavery | Quakers |
| Maryland was established to... | serve as a refuge for Catholics to avoid persecution |
| colonial document significant in establishing the principle of self government (1620) | Mayflower Compact |
| Plymouth, Boston, New York, Charleston, Jamestown have this in common... | port cities located along the Atlantic Seaboard - harbors for importing and exporting goods |
| Persecuted and forced out of homeland and came for religious reasons - 1620 | Plymouth - Pilgrims |
| Volunteered to start a new colony and came for adventure and wealth - 1607 | Jamestown |
| this American colony’s economy was based primarily on harvesting rice, indigo and tobacco | Virginia |
| How did geography and climate play a role in developing the plantation system? | The Southern colonies had a warm climate and rich, fertile soil which allowed for a longer growing season to plant cash crops on large farms called plantations. Many plantation owners used slave labor to keep up with cash crop demand. |
| Spanish were motivated to colonize in the New World because they wanted to | spread the Catholic faith |
| 1. Pilgrims leave Holland and sail to the New World. 1620 2. Puritans established a settlement in the Massachusetts Bay Colony. 1630 3. Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson are viewed as dissenters. 1640 What do they have in common? | working to establish freedom of religion |
| It gave people a voice in how they wanted to govern themselves - legislative body | Virginia House of Burgesses |
| colonists felt it necessary to establish their own representative institutions due to | The distance between the colonies and Great Britain. (Salutary Neglect) |
| choose members to serve in a general assembly as their representatives… | voting - electing a legislature (body of government) |
| 1. The abundance of lumber in the region allowed settlers to build and sell ships. 2. A robust fishing industry developed due to access to the Atlantic coast. | New England Colonies |
| Americans today are guaranteed freedom of religion under .... | the First Amendment |
| A period of time in which colonists were told to ask God for forgiveness and to rid their lives of sin | The First Great Awakening |
| A preacher during the First Great Awakening who would give a sermon on repentance? | Jonathan Edwards |
| Reason the African American slave population would increase over time.... | More African Americans were needed to harvest cash crops grown in the south |
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