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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What were the Key Colonies in New England? | Massachusetts (Rhode Island and Connecticut) |
| What were the Key Colonies in the Middle Colonies? | New York and Pennsylvania |
| What were the Key Colonies in the Chesapeake region? | Maryland and Virginia |
| What were the Key Colonies in Southern, Caribbean, and the West Indies? | South Carolina, Georgia, Barbados |
| Who were key figures in New England's colonies? | John Winthrop (founder) Anne Hutchinson, Roger Williams (dissenters) |
| Who were key figures in the middle colonies? | William Penn |
| Who were key figures in the Chesapeake region? | Lord Baltimore, John Smith, John Rolfe |
| What was the Geography/Climate like in the New England colonies? | Colder, rocky soil, coast |
| What was the Geography/Climate like in the middle colonies? | warmer |
| What was the Geography/Climate like in the Chesapeake colonies? | warmer, rich soil |
| What was the Geography/Climate like in the Southern, Caribbean, and West Indies? | warmest |
| What were economic activities in the New England colonies? | fishing, trading, shipbuilding, farming (corn, mostly subsistence), timber |
| What were economic activities in the Middle colonies? | cereal crops (wheat), farming |
| What were economic activities in the Chesapeake colonies? | cash crops, especially tobacco |
| What were economic activities in the Southern, Caribbean, and West Indies? | cash crops: -rice -indigo -sugar |
| What were reasons to settle in New England colonies? | Religion, towns/families |
| What were reasons to settle in Middle colonies? | Tolerance/diversity (Pennsylvania), money |
| What were reasons to settle in the Chesapeake colonies? | tolerance (Maryland), money (the Virginia company) |
| What were reasons to settle in the Southern, Caribbean, and West Indies? | money |
| What was the religion for the New England colonies? | Protestants: -puritans -separatists (aka pilgrims) |
| What were the religions in the Middle colonies? | -Reformed (Dutch) -Quakers (Pennsylvania) |
| What were religions in the Chesapeake colonies? | -Catholic -Anglican |
| What were the religions in the South, Caribbean, and West Indies? | -Anglican -Voodoo and Santeria |
| How much slavery was there in New England? | a little bit (not average) |
| How much slavery was there in the Middle colonies? | Slaves in ports ("stevedores") |
| How much slavery was there in the Chesapeake region? | Lots of Indentured servants and enslaved Africans |
| How much slavery was there in the South, Caribbean, and West Indies? | LOTS! -task system |
| What are some things in common between all of these colonies? | benefit from slavery, farm, Christian (mostly protestant), mercantilism, self-government (House of Burgesses, town halls & meetings), English common laws & rights, language, conflicts with Natives (Tuscarora, Pequot, King Phillip's War, Culture: PC, E, GA |
| What was King Philip's War? | A conflict between New England settlers and that region's American Indians. Casualties were high and fighting fierce. Settlers won. This started b/c the leader Metacom thought the way to survive was to force Europeans out. |
| What was the Tuscarora War? | A war launched by Tuscarora Indians against European setllers in North Carolina and their allies. This started because Native Americans were being forced off of their land. |
| Big 4 and their main pursuits? | 1. Spanish: (SW and Florida) Encomiendas, Caste, Conquistadors 2. English: (East coast) settlers and religion 3. French: (Canada and Great Lakes) fur! 4. Dutch: (NYC/New Amsterdam) settlers, trappers, fur |
| What were the main Native American groups and their ways of life in 1491? | 1. Plains: hunted bison, nomadism (Great Plains, Sioux) 2. SE and NW: hunting and gathering (Shasta and Cherokee) 3. SE and Mississippi: agriculture 4. Pueblos: Maize cultivation |
| Motivations of European settlers? | -crusades -capitalism -Sugar cultivation -reformation -reconquista |
| Methods that allowed for colonization? | -caravel -astrolabe -compass |
| Important aspects of colonial exchange? | -tomatoes+potatoes to England -horses, smallpox to Americas -Great Dying |
| Contrasts between Europeans and Natives? | -Land:Europeans were more possessive -Gender roles: Europeans more Patriarchal, Natives more Egalitarian -Relgion: Europeans Catholic, Natives nature-based |
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