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| Define Mercantilism | Describes how Europeans increase their wealth and power by obtaining gold and silver and by establishing a favorable balance of trade.
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| What is the significance of the date 1607? | Jamestown was established.
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| What is the House of Burgesses? | Created on 1619, it's the first representative assembly in the American Colonies.
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| What is the Mayflower Compact? | It helped established the idea of self-government and majority rule.
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| What is the significance of the Fundamental Order of Connecticut? | Written in 1639, they were laws that extended voting rights to non-church members and limited the power of the governor. They also expanded the idea of representative government.
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| List the New England Colonies and why they were founded. | Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, and Connecticut. Colonist were in search of religious freedom and the puritans wanted to escape economic hard times in England such as high tax and religious persecution.
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| List the Middle Colonies. | New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware.
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| Why was New York founded? | Founded by the Dutch but King Charles sent out warships to fight and they gave it up.
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| Why was Pennsylvania founded? | King Charles the 2nd owed William Penn so in 1681, he gave it to him and the quakers.
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| Why was New Jersey founded? | The Duke of York gave part of his claim to his friends in the colonies and they encouraged settlers by promising freedom of religion and large land.
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| Why was Delaware founded? | Penn granted the three lower counties in this colony their own assembly and it broke away to it's own colony.
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| List the Southern Colonies. | South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, Virginia, and Georgia.
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| Why were South Carolina, North Carolina and Maryland founded? | For Roman Catholics and French protestants seeking religious freedom and fleeing persecution in England.
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| Why was Virginia founded? | To expand trade, it was an ideal place for farming, and there was profit from landsales.
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| Why was Georgia founded? | It was a reufge for debtors.
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