Download Review Sheet-Colonial America

Review Sheet-Colonial America
Review the following information on Colonial America. Be sure to study your
notes and Chapter 4 of the textbook. Remember the content on the test is not
limited to the material found on this review sheet.
1. The New England, Southern and Middle Colonies
New England-harbors, trade, shipbuilding, Puritans, Thomas Hooker,
Roger Williams
Middle Colonies-“Breadbasket Colonies”, melting pot, William Penn,
Quakers
Southern Colonies-fertile soil, warm climate, long growing season, RITS,
Act of Toleration, slavery (Why is slavery most important in the Southern
colonies?), James Oglethorpe’s “Haven for Debtors”
*Identify each individual colony as being a part of the Southern, Middle or
New England Colonies.
2. Slavery-The Middle Passage, Triangular Trade
3. Mercantilism-exports>imports
The Navigation Acts
Triangular Trade
4. The Great Awakening and the Enlightenment-John Locke, Jonathan
Edwards, George Whitefield
5. Vocabulary-toleration, cash crop, tenant farming, indentured servant