SS Flashcards
Name the New England colonies
Mass
Conn
Rhode
Island
New
Hamshire
Name Middle Colonies
Delewhare
New
York
Penn
New
Jersy
Name Southern Colonies
Maryland
Virgina
North
Carolina
South
Carolina
Georgia
First atempted settlement in North America
Roanke
First permanent settlement in North America
Jamestown
Pilgrims came to North America for
Religious Freedom
Roger Wiliams founded
Rhode Island
Thomas Hooker founded
Conneticut
Main reason for founding New England colonies was
Religious freedom
The purpious of the Mayflower Compact was
passing equal law
Earlest exsample of rep goverment
House of burgesses
John smith made what rule
No work No food
Two geographic chariteristics of the New England colonies.
Hills and low mountans
The middle colony north of long island
New York
Another name for the border between Maryland and Pennsylvania
Mason-Dixion line
Major river that flows north to south in NY
Hudson River
Last Middle colony to be founded
Pennsilvania
The middle colonys were known as the bread basket colonies because…
Grain and longer Growing Season than other colonies
The middle colonies were diverse because…
Many diffrent nations.
The middle colonies differed from the new england colonies in what ways
Climate, Longer Growing season ,and more diverse poulation
Original settlers of present day new york
Dutch patroons
The precendent established by the result of the John peter trial
freedom of the press
What is mercantilism?
The beleif that the colonies exsist for the benifit of the mother country
2 major cash crops grown in the southern colonies
Rice and tobacoo