10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt 10 pt 15 pt 20 pt 25 pt 5 pt Geography Reasons For Colonization Early British Colonies Self- Government Colonial Regions
Geographic feature on the Eastern border Of the British colonies
What is the Atlantic Ocean?
Geographic Feature on the original western border of the British Colonies
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Central US River that empties into the Gulf of Mexico
What is the Mississippi River?
Western border of the US after the Revolution
What is the Mississippi River?
Countries that controlled Canada before and then after the French & Indian War
What are France And then Britain?
Country that controlled the original colonies that became America
What is England (or Great Britain)?
Economic theory that said colonies exist to benefit the parent country by sending raw materials and buying manufactured goods
What is mercantilism?
Date of the first successful English settlement
What is 1607?
Reasons Separatists, Puritans and Catholics came to America
What is to escape Religious Persecution?
3 Ways England encouraged people to move to America
What are chance to own land, Religious toleration, And self-government?
First successful English colony
What is Jamestown, Virginia?
Problems faced by Jamestown settlers
What are Swampy land, Mosquitoes, disease, Not wanting to work Hostile Powhatan tribe ?
Crop that saved The Jamestown Colony and provided profit
What is tobacco?
Corporations whose investors paid for colonies
What are joint-stock companies (like the Virginia Company)?
The second successful British colony
What is Plymouth, Massachusetts?
The first legislative Assembly in North America (or step 1 in self-government)
What is the Virginia House of Burgesses?
Informal document signed by Plymouth Pilgrims where they promised to obey all laws for the good of the colony (rule of law) – step 2 in self- government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
First official, written constitution or plan of government
What are the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Example of direct democracy in New England towns
What are town meetings?
Reason(s) why England let colonies develop greater self-government
What are great distances and/or poor communication with English Parliament?
Near what geographic feature were The first settlements located?
What are Harbors or ports?
3 cash crops of the Southern colonies
What are tobacco, rice, & indigo?
the primary economic pursuits of the New England colonies?
What are fishing, Shipbuilding, and Shipping and trade (commerce)?
“breadbasket colonies” that grew grains like wheat and corn and had some iron manufacturing
What are the Middle Colonies?
First colony with True religious toleration
What is Rhode Island?