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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 and
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?
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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 the 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-1700s?
• 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-18th 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