Unit 1 - (Factors Shaping Colonial Settlement) Flashcards
(Identify reasons each of the colonies were created and the ethnic groups that inhabited that area.)
1
Q
- Leader of the VA Colony
- Reason for founding and long term stability
A
- John Smith
- Tobacco, Headright System, indentured servants, and slavery.
2
Q
- Leader of the PA Colony
- Reason for founding and long term stability
A
- William Penn
- Free land, a haven for Quakers, equality brings diversity.
3
Q
- Leader of NY/NJ Colony
- Reason for founding and long term stability
A
- Various leaders
- Free land, religious groups migrated (Jews, Huguenots, and Presbyterians)
4
Q
- Leader of MA Bay Colony
- Reason for founding and long term stability
A
- John Winthrop
- Puritan society seeking to reform church (“create city upon a hill”), intolerance for other religions and beliefs–Salem Witch Trials
5
Q
- Leader of RI/CN Colony
- Reason for founding and long term stability
A
- Roger Williams (R) and Thomas Hooker (Conn).
- Dissenters from Puritan colony, individualism, self government, friendly relations with Native Americans, escape Puritan lifestyle.
6
Q
- Leader of MD Colony
- Reason for founding and long term stability
A
- George Calvert
- Tobacco, haven for Catholics
7
Q
- Leader of GA Colony
- Reason for founding and long term stability
A
- James Oglethorpe
- Colony for debtors, poorer peoples, buffer against Spanish Florida, rice and indigo (cash crops)