Topic #1 & 2 Test Study Guide Flashcards
Native Americans all learned to _____ to their environments and were sometimes a resource when Europeans came as explorers and colonists.
adapt
The ____________, Dutch, and French all tried to find the Northwest Passage as a route to Asia, but later settled in colonies and or trading posts to get furs.
English
A big reason England started Georgia was so it would provide a defensive _________ to other colonies.
buffer
Maryland was a colony founded by George and Cecil Calvert for ________________ to be free to worship.
Catholics
“For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. the eyes of all people are upon u. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken, and so cause him to withdraw his present help from us, Wee shall be made a story and by-word through the world.”
The quote from John Winthrop’s speech tells the puritans that they have God’s ______ on them and must set and example for the ________ to follow.
eyes, world
What are the names of all the New England Colonies?
Massachusetts, Maine (part of Massachusetts), Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire
What are the names of all the Southern Colonies?
Georgia, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina,
What are the names of all the Middle Colonies?
Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Delaware
Who started Georgia and why?
James Oglethorpe to give English debtors a fresh start. The colony also served as a defensive buffer.
Who started Rhode Island and why?
Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams started Rhode Island. Originally they were two separate settlements, Anne started a settlement called Portsmouth and Roger Williams started Providence. They both dissent from the puritans.
What was the geography and economic activities of the New England Colonies?
The New England Colonies were the coldest, rockiest, and very hilly. There was lots of trees and water so they made ships, fished, and did whaling.
What was the geography and economic activities of the Middle Colonies?
The middle colonies were just right so they could grow wheat for food, they focused on lumber, iron works, and ship building
What was the geography and economic activities of the Southern Colonies?
The Southern colonies were the warmest with many coastal plains. So they could grow cash crops.
What were the cash crops of the southern colonies?
rice, indigo, tobacco
What were the key contributions Native Americans had on the colonies?
The colonists got agricultural techniques, learned to trap, and how to get fish.
What was the impact European settlements had on Native American Settlements?
They spread diseases that the indigenous had no immunity to, took their land, and enslaved them. However they also introduced new weapons, tools, and resources. Pushed them to the west.
Why did Spain settle in the Americas?
They settled to find gold
What were Spanish ex-soldiers who took land and resources, usually through violence called?
Conquistadors
All English colonies had some form of representative _______________ with different names and different powers.
government
In New England a common way to make a living was _______ in the ocean with ______ made from the region’s trees.
fish/whaling, ships
What was the name of the explorer who sailed for the Dutch?
Henry Hudson
Colombian Exchange
The transfer of people, products, and ideas between Europe and the Americas.
What were the English, Dutch, and French looking for?
The Northwest Passage as a route to Asia
The Pilgrims wrote and signed the Mayflower Compact which was the first agreement of self-______________ in the Americas
government
What did Thomas Hooker do?
Thomas Hooker started Connecticut and dissented from the Puritans
Who was the leader of the pilgrims?
William Bradford
Who is John Smith? What did he do?
He created logs of the events that happened in Jamestown. He didn’t start Jamestown he was one of the people that came later on. He also helped Jamestown succeed.
