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What is a charter?
A document signed by the King that gave colonists permission to claim and settle land in the New World.

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What is agriculture?
farming

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What is a colony?
Land that is owned/controlled by a country-but located in a different area of the world.

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What is a colonist?
Someone who moves to live in and help settle a colony.

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The weather in an area over a long period of time.

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Tobacco crops

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So that the colony could be protected from other countries who may want to attack it.

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Religious freedom/to be able to worship in their own way

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Which activity in New England would be considered agricultural?
Mining iron C) ship building
Fishing and hunting D) farming
farming

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Because the Plymouth colony was farther north than the Jamestown colony, what can we infer would be a major difference between the two colonies?
Plymouth was a smaller colony than Jamestown
Plymouth had more water than Jamestown
Plymouth had colder temperatures than Jamestown
It was colder in Plymouth than in Jamestown.

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In which colonies did the most farming/agriculture take place? Why?
The Southern Colonies-because they had the warmest weather, longest growing season, and the best soil for farming.

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Why was Anne Hutchinson thrown out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
She wanted to make sure everyone had true religious freedom.

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Because of their geographic location, the New England and Middle colonies were mostly settled due to:
A) ability to get drinking water from the ocean
B) religious freedom
C) transportation by ships
D) location near mountains and mining
Being close to the ocean allowed them to use ships for transportation

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What is a pull factor?
Something that makes people want to move to a new place

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What is a push factor?
Something that makes someone want to move away from their home country.

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When the Spanish arrived in the New World, how did they treat the Native Americans?
They made them slaves.

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Why was Roger Williams thrown out of the Massachusetts Bay Colony? Why did he start his own colony in Rhode Island?
He was kicked out of the colony by the Puritans because he wanted more freedom of religion. He started the colony to allow more people to choose how they would worship.

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Who was the main leader of the Quakers?
William Penn

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Why did colonists in the New England colonies live so much closer to each other than the colonists in the Southern colonies?
They needed to be able to exchange goods and services easily. The Southern colonies needed more space for their large farms and plantations.

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The Breadbasket of the Colonies-because they grew a lot of corn and wheat there.

22. 5 - $100 What was the Mayflower Compact?
The set of rules for the Pilgrims

23. 5 - $200 What were the main ways of raising money in the New England
Fishing, ship-building, lumber, fur

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What were the main ways of raising money in the Southern colonies?
Agriculture (farming)
Mostly tobacco, rice, and indigo

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What were the main ways of raising money in the Middle colonies?
Iron-making and some farming

26. 5 - $500 Why was the Mayflower Compact important?
It was one of the first forms of government in the New World

27. Final Jeopardy
When European exploration began in the 1400 and 1500s, what was the main reason people wanted to explore?
To find new routes to Asia for spices and silk