The American Republic Test Flashcards
What were the three largest groups of immigrants to the colonies
Scots-Irish, Germans, and the English
Black slaves often served as household servants in these colonies
Northern Colony
The French Huguenots had a particularly strong presence where
South carolina
What was the undeveloped area at the edge of the colonial settlements called
frontier
What term was used to describe the Africans’ journey to the New World
Middle passage
What routes did settlers usually follow inland
rivers
Were roads built during the colonial era
yes
Most of the early colonists relied upon what things that were found nearby
Locally grown food and Natural resources found nearby
What occupation did most of the early colonists have
Subsistence (farmers)
What popular vehicle did the colonists use to move their belongings inland
Cohestoga wagons
Farmers in the middle colonies raised much of this type of grain
cereal grain
What colonies used timber for the shipbuilding industry
New England colonies
What colonies were known as the bread colonies
The middle colonies
The New England colonies had ________ climate than that of the other two regions
cold
The New England colonies had a ____ ____ soil
Thin, rocky
The New England colonies often turned to________ for a living
fishing
Colonial fisherman caught codfish along the _______ ___________ coast or off the Grand Banks of Newfoundland
New England Coast
What colonies had several navigable rivers to aid transportation and settlement
The Middle colonies
Which colonies generally had rich soil and a long rowing season
The southern colonies
What colonies were in the location of Piedmont and tidewater
The Southern colonies
What were the large farms in the Southern colonies called
Plantations
Was the South a place where industries grew or where there were more farms and plantations
There were more farms and plantations
What was the most important crop to the survival of the New colonies
corn
What do Historians call the network between the Americas, Europe, and Africa
The Triangular trade
In the British colonies, what group was most actively involved with the missions to the Indians
Puritans
Christian Indians lived in ___________towns in order to learn about European laws, manners, and town life
Praying
Which Puritan minister translated the Bible into Algonquin
John Eliot
By the mid 1600s were the colonists still threatened by Indian attacks
Yes
What war did colonists capture Indians and sold them as slaves
Pequot
What war resulted in the burning of Jamestown
Bacon’s Rebillion
What war resulted in the loss of the Indian way of life
King Philip’s war
What war spread through Mass. bay, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine
King Philip’s war
What war did settlers attack Indians without government permission
Bacon’s Rebellion
What were colonial armies called
Militia
Who had the Power of the purse in the colonies
Legislature
All of the colonies established
Legislatures
What things took place at a town meeting
Night watchmen were appointed, New settlers were given citizenship, and ways to help the poor were considered
Who appointed justices of the peace to hold court and serve various public needs
Governors
What was the main source of income for colonial governments
Property tax
Which colonies had local governments in town meeting
New England Colonies
What were the two methods of caring for the poor in the colonies
Putting out and round the town
Were elections secret or public in the colonies
Public
