The Middle Colonies Flashcards
The motives of the English colonizing North America. provide specific examples
The English established colonies in North America they wanted new markets for English products and raw materials for English industries for example trade with Native Americans for fur. they wanted to cut lumber example shipbuilding.and wanted to grow crops example tobacco. They wanted to find gold and silver and excape of religious persecution
Why did the English establish A colony on Roanoke Island?
To provide new markets for English products and raw materials for English industries
In which direction did most colonial settlement spread over time
West
What was the purpose of the London company
Founded Jamestown with the goal of finding gold and wealth for settlers
Define charter
Document that grants the right to organize a settlement in an area
Define indentured servant
Men and women who signed contracts to pay for the passageway to the Americas
Describe some of the challenges that Jamestown colonists faced
Dieseases, starvation, and conflict with Indians
What crop was most important in making Jamestowne and early Virginia in economic success
Tobacco
Why did the Powhatan Indians turn againist the Jamestown settlers
Sellers raided Native American villages for food.
What why is the historical significance of the Virginia house of burgesses
It began a tradition of represent government English colonies
I did Nathanial Bacon and his followers rebel and Burn Jamestown
These colonists were protesting the high taxes and lack of available farmland
In which type of colony does a person or persons own all land and control the colony’s government
Proprietary
What religion is tolerated in Maryland but banned in Georgia?
Catholicism
Give two reasons for the founding of Georgia
Debtors would have opportunity and buffer colony ( protect rich SC from Spanish Fla.)
How did early Maryland colony deal with the mixture of Protestants and Catholics?
They passed a law that required religious toleration The toleration act
Explain why the southern economy was primarily built on farming
Warm and humid climate and fertile soil
What role did Eliza Lucas play In the southern colonies?
Developed indigo as important crop
Define separatists?
Pilgrims–they wanted to separate from the Anglican Church
Name the ship that carried the pilgrims to the Americans
Mayflower
What was the Mayflower compact and what brought it about
The pilgrims had intended to land in Virginia that were blown off course to Massachusetts. They decided that the rules of Virginia did not bind them and what they needed was of some sort of needed rules so they came up with the Mayflower compact. It was the first document in which American colonists claimed a right to govern themselves
How did Native Americans help the pilgrims survive in America?
They taught pilgrims how to farm and hunt
Why did the puritans leave England to Massachusetts
For religious freedom and to build a society based on Bibalic teachings
John Winthrop was the leader of which religious group
Puritans
What does John Winthrop mean By a City upon a hill
Set an example for the rest of the world
