European Exploration and Colonization What European country explored
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European Exploration and Colonization
What European country explored and settled the Caribbean, Central America, and South America? • Spain
For what two reasons did Englishmen settle in North America? • Religious Freedom • Economic Opportunity
What religious group settled New England? • The Puritans
What was another name for the Church of England? • The Anglican Church
What was the major reason for the settlement of New England? • Religious Freedom
Who settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620? • Commonly called the Pilgrims
What agreement signed by the male settlers at Plymouth helped establish the notion of self-government in the Americas? • The Mayflower Compact
Who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony? • The Puritans
What was the basic unit of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? • The Church Congregation • Each congregation established a Town
Where did the Puritans practice a form of direct democracy? • At Town Meetings
What three European groups chiefly settled the Middle Atlantic region? • English • Dutch • Germans
What was the major reason for the settlement of Virginia and the other Southern colonies? • Economic Opportunity
Who founded the Virginia colony as a business venture? • The Virginia Company of London
Who were the English nobility who received large land grants in Virginia from the King of England helped settle the colony? • Cavaliers
Define indentured servant? • A person who agreed to work a certain number of years in exchange for payment of his passage to America.
What was the first permanent English settlement in North America? • Jamestown
What became the cash crop of the Virginia colony? • Tobacco
What was the first elected assembly (lawmaking body) in the New World? • The House of Burgesses
With what colony does one associate the Cavaliers? • Virginia
Where did many poor English immigrants settle in the Virginia colony? • In the Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia
What regions of the Western Hemisphere did the Spanish explore and settle? • The Caribbean • Central America • South America
What region of the Western Hemisphere did the French explore? • Canada
Who had better relations with the First Americans, the British or the French? • The French
How did English colonization affect the American Indians? • Lost territory • Died from European diseases, especially smallpox
What group did Europeans force to come to the Americas? • Africans
Name four characteristics of the economy of the New England colonies? • • Shipbuilding Fishing Lumbering Subsistence Farming
Name three characteristics of the economy of the Middle Colonies? • Shipbuilding • Small farms • Trading
What was the economic basis of the Southern colonies? • Cash crops raised on large Plantations
What formed the basis of the economy of the Southern colonies in the mountains and valleys of the Appalachian foothills? • Subsistence farming • Hunting • Trading
What were three cash crops of the Southern colonies? • Tobacco • Rice • Indigo
What were the two cash crops in South Carolina? • Rice • Indigo
Which English colonies believed in private property and free enterprise (profit)? • ALL
What trade pattern brought Africans to the English colonies? • The Triangular Trade
What was the name of the forced voyage of African slaves from their homes to the New World? • The Middle Passage
According to the SOL, what were the 3 points in the Triangular Trade? • The New England Colonies • The West Indies • Africa
To what major conflict did the Southern colonies’ slavery-based agricultural economy eventually lead? • The Civil War
What does religious tolerance mean? • Freedom of Religion
What religious group settled Pennsylvania? • Quakers
What religious group settled Maryland? • Roman Catholics
What two groups of colonists generally believed in religious tolerance? • Quakers • Roman Catholics
What are the eastern lowlands of the Atlantic Coastal Plain called? • Tidewater
What was the background of the small farmers, hunters, and traders in the mountains and valleys of the inland South? • Scotch-Irish • English
What religious movement swept the American colonies in the mid-1700 s? • The Great Awakening
Name two important leaders of the Great Awakening? • George Whitefield • Jonathan Edwards
What two denominations grew rapidly as a result of the Great Awakening? • Baptists • Methodists
What religious movement of the mid-18 th century preached “fire and brimstone” sermons to encourage spiritual rebirth? • The Great Awakening
What did the Great Awakening challenge? • The religious order of the colonies • The governmental order of the colonies
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