British North America Flashcards
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Which colonies were in it? (Middle Colonies) What was society like? What was the geography like? What was the economy like?
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- New York,New Jersey,Pennsylvania, Delaware(Maryland)
- Mixed(Dutch,Swedes),religious freedom, status based on wealth
- Mild(temperate)fertile, coastline,plateau
- Small farm(grain) fished, trade
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Which colonies were in it? (New England Colonies) What was society like? What was the geography like? What was the economy like?
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- Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire
- Puritans, No religious toleration, democratic
- Cold, rocky, coastline, forests
- Trading, industry, fisherman, lumberjack/timber
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Which colonies were in it? (Southern Colonies) What was society like? What was the geography like? What was the economy like?
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- North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia, Georgia,Maryland
- Church of England, Slave owners, planter aristocracy
- Hot, very fertile soil
- Plantations(tobacco, sugar, rice cotton, indigo)
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What was mercantilism?
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Use colonies for resources,colonies buy finished goods
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What was Jamestown?
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First successful settlement in the British America, relationship with Pocahontas(Powhattan),saved by tabacco
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What was Plymouth colony?
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Where Pilgrims settled in present Massachusetts, came for religious freedom
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What war did Great Britain fight in North America in the 1750s? Against who? What was the result?
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- French & Indian war
- Against French & native allies
- British won, get Florida and Canada, France out of NA
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Why did Great Britain raise taxes in the colonies?
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Needed to pay debt from French & Indian war
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What slogan did the colonist use to oppose those taxes?”
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“No taxation without representation
