Colonization Flashcards
What factor allowed for stability in the New England Colonies?
Puritans social heirarchy
What are the Indian beliefs of religion/politics/economics?
Spiritual relationship with nature; communal cost of land
What did the Mayflower Compact lay the foundation for?
Supply and demand
Describe the theory of Mercantilism:
Economic philosophy underlying early European colonial policy
Describe the Triangular Trade System and what is traded along its routes:
Slaves, tobacco, guns, cotton, Indigo ; Trade between Europe, America, Africa
Describe the religious toleration of the Puritans:
Not open minded
The long-term economic survival of the Jamestown colony depended on-
Tobbaco
Regarding land, the First Americans believed:
Communal Land
Because the First Americans practiced animism in worshiping mother Earth and other gods of nature, Europeans felt compelled to:
Convert them to Christianity
The two main issues that cause disputes between Native Americans and English colonists involved Christianity and:
Land ownership
Name three negative impacts of Europeans on Native Americans
Disease, Murder, Taking land
What was the primary economic focus of English colonies in the 1700s.
Religion
Which colonial region is known for great religious toleration?
Middle
Pocahontas and John Smith are historical figures connected with which early North American colony?
Middle
Discuss how African slavery became the norm for labor in the British colonies:
They made them seem lower than them like animals
Who participated in Bacon’s Rebellion and what were its casual factors?
Dominated by rich
England focused its colonizing activities on which area?
New England
Discuss the culture of the African slaves in British America:
Common religion, form their own culture, blend
Which colonial region used a plantation economy?
Southern
What colonies were found in New England?
Connecticut, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New Hampshire
What colonies were found in the Middle Colonies?
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware
What colonies were found in the Southern Colonies?
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
Which colonial region was founded by those seeking economic opportunity?
Southern
Which colonial region had a social hierarchy based on social standing with the church?
New England
What is meant by Cash Crop? Second, identify the major cash crops of the “new world”:
Crops to make cash and trade : Tobacco, Indigo, Cotton, and Sugar
What were the main cash crops of South Carolina?
Rice and Indigo
Which colonial region was dependent upon a cheap labor source to plant, tend, and harvest crops like tobacco, rice, and indigo?
Southern
Which colonial region sought to establish a perfect Christian society… “a shining city on the hill”?
New England
Shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small-scale subsistence farming, and manufacturing were economic activities of which of which region?
New England
What was the Middle Passage?
Triangular Trade
Describe how indentured servants worked:
Share crops with land owners and worked to own land pieces
Which colonial region had close ties to England and worshiped in the Anglican church?
Southern
What was a “cavalier”?
Rich person, landed indentured (Land owners)
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?
Great Awakening (brought colonies together)
