Colonization

Question 1

What factor allowed for stability in the New England Colonies?

Answer 1

Puritans social heirarchy

Question 2

What are the Indian beliefs of religion/politics/economics?

Answer 2

Spiritual relationship with nature; communal cost of land

Question 3

What did the Mayflower Compact lay the foundation for?

Answer 3

Supply and demand

Question 4

Describe the theory of Mercantilism:

Answer 4

Economic philosophy underlying early European colonial policy

Question 5

Describe the Triangular Trade System and what is traded along its routes:

Answer 5

Slaves, tobacco, guns, cotton, Indigo ; Trade between Europe, America, Africa

Question 6

Describe the religious toleration of the Puritans:

Answer 6

Not open minded

Question 7

The long-term economic survival of the Jamestown colony depended on-

Answer 7

Tobbaco

Question 8

Regarding land, the First Americans believed:

Answer 8

Communal Land

Question 9

Because the First Americans practiced animism in worshiping mother Earth and other gods of nature, Europeans felt compelled to:

Answer 9

Convert them to Christianity

Question 10

The two main issues that cause disputes between Native Americans and English colonists involved Christianity and:

Answer 10

Land ownership

Question 11

Name three negative impacts of Europeans on Native Americans

Answer 11

Disease, Murder, Taking land

Question 12

What was the primary economic focus of English colonies in the 1700s.

Answer 12

Religion

Question 13

Which colonial region is known for great religious toleration?

Answer 13

Middle

Question 14

Pocahontas and John Smith are historical figures connected with which early North American colony?

Answer 14

Middle

Question 15

Discuss how African slavery became the norm for labor in the British colonies:

Answer 15

They made them seem lower than them like animals

Question 16

Who participated in Bacon’s Rebellion and what were its casual factors?

Answer 16

Dominated by rich

Question 17

England focused its colonizing activities on which area?

Answer 17

New England

Question 18

Discuss the culture of the African slaves in British America:

Answer 18

Common religion, form their own culture, blend

Question 19

Which colonial region used a plantation economy?

Answer 19

Southern

Question 20

What colonies were found in New England?

Answer 20

Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire

Question 21

What colonies were found in the Middle Colonies?

Answer 21

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware

Question 22

What colonies were found in the Southern Colonies?

Answer 22

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

Question 23

Which colonial region was founded by those seeking economic opportunity?

Answer 23

Southern

Question 24

Which colonial region had a social hierarchy based on social standing with the church?

Answer 24

New England

Question 25

What is meant by Cash Crop? Second, identify the major cash crops of the “new world”:

Answer 25

Crops to make cash and trade : Tobacco, Indigo, Cotton, and Sugar

Question 26

What were the main cash crops of South Carolina?

Answer 26

Rice and Indigo

Question 27

Which colonial region was dependent upon a cheap labor source to plant, tend, and harvest crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo?

Answer 27

Southern

Question 28

Which colonial region sought to establish a perfect Christian society… “a shining city on the hill”?

Answer 28

New England

Question 29

Shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small-scale subsistence farming, and manufacturing were economic activities of which of which region?

Answer 29

New England

Question 30

What was the Middle Passage?

Answer 30

Triangular Trade

Question 31

Describe how indentured servants worked:

Answer 31

Share crops with land owners and worked to own land pieces

Question 32

Which colonial region had close ties to England and worshiped in the Anglican church?

Answer 32

Southern

Question 33

What was a “cavalier”?

Answer 33

Rich person, landed indentured (Land owners)

Question 34

What movement led to the rapid growth of evangelical religions and laid a social foundation for the American Revolution? Second, how did it impact the development of the American colonies?

Answer 34

Great Awakening (brought colonies together)