Thirteen Colonies, Crops, Etc Flashcards
What were the New England Colonies? (4)
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
What were the Middle Colonies? (4)
New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
What were the Southern Colonies? (5)
Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.
The people who settled the New England Colonies were called?
Pilgrims
The main cash crops in the middle Colonies were?
Corn and Wheat
The main cash crops in the Southern Colonies were?
Tobacco and Rice
The main cash crops in the New England Colonies were?
Fish and Lumber
After seizing control of New Netherlands, The English renamed the area to what?
The English renamed New Netherlands, New York.
Encomienda
Spanish forced the Native Americans to work.
Roger Williams
Believed in religious freedom, banished, fled to Rhode Island
Anne Hutchinson
Taught that worshipers needed neither the church nor its ministers to interpret the Bible for them. Banished by the colony by Puritan leaders in 1638.
Headright System
50 acres of land.
Philadelphia
Second most important city
Middle Passage
Trip from West Africa to West Indies
Great Awakening
Religious revival swept through all the colonies.
John Rolfe
Jamestown Colonist created high-quality Tobacco.
Quakers
Pacifists, good relations with the natives, everyone is equal, William Penn was a quaker.
Salutary Neglect
England loosens its restrictions on colonies.
Nathaniel Bacon
Led rebellion against Virginia authorities
Popé
Led uprising against Spanish in New Mexico
Powhatan
Native group that battled Virginia Colonist
Propieter
Owner of a colony
The Dutch colonist’s had good relations with the ______
Natives
Known as the Dutch Wedge
New Netherlands, because it separated England’s northern and southern colonies along the North American’s coast.
First governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony was
John Winthrop
The founder of the colony of Providence was
Roger Williams
Unlike the settlers in Virginia, the Puritans who came to North America were
Families
The main dispute between the Native Americans and New England was over ______.
Land
Sugar Act
Tax imposed on Colonist
Sir Edmund Andros
Ruler of Dominion New England
French and Indian War
French-British battle for control of America
Benjamin Franklin
Prominent Colonial thinker
The Main goal of colonist who settled the Plymouth and Massachusetts bay colonies was to
Practice their religion freely
The group that held most of the power in Southern society were the
Planters
The Stono Rebellion took place in
South Carolina
