Exploration & The Colonies Flashcards
Religions in the middle colonies
New Jersey - Presbyterians
Pennsylvania - Quakers
Religions in New England colonies
Massachusetts - Puritans
Rhode Island - Dissenters
Religions in Southern colonies
Church of England
Maryland - Catholics
What region was very tolerant
Middle
Rhode Island is in what section
New England
Southern colonies had what govt
VA House of Burgesses
Representative Gov’t in
southern colonies
direct democracy (Athenian model) in
New England
Breadbasket of USA
Mid-Atlantic
Cavaliers
large landowners in VA who received land from the king
50-Acre land grants given to settlers in VA in exchange for passage to the New World
Headright System
Growing enough just to live (usually was done farther inland in the mountains and valleys of the Appalachian Foothills
Subsistence farming
Cash crops included tobacco and …
indigo and rice
Dissenters of the Puritans went to:
RhoDe IslanD
New England Econ from:
shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering
Mid-Atlantic Econ from:
shipbuilding, small-scale farming BREADBASKET, trading
Presbyterians were in:
Mid-Atlantic NEW JERSEY
Mid-Atlantic had settlers from
Dutch, German, English
Trading Center in Southern colonies
Charles Town SC
Columbian exchange was between
Eastern and Western Hemispheres
50-acre land given to settlers in return for going to the New World
Head Right system
Founded Pennsylvania
Penn
Did freedom of the press
Zenger
Pepes who got lots of land from the king
cavaliers
French and Indian war was between:
French + Native Americans
vs.
England +Colonists + Iroquois
French and Indian war was over:
Ohio River Valley
Religious resurgence in force in America
Great Awakening
Founded Methodist movement in Great Awakening
Whitefield
Did famous sermons in the Great Awakening
Edwards
France gave up all posts in America in the
Treaty of Paris 1763
Document from England that said colonists couldn’t go farther inland (didn’t want another war with Native Americans)
Proclamation of 1763
