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