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Which English settlement in North America is now known as the “lost colony”? The colonists mysteriously disappeared. Roanoke
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Which group wanted to purify (clean up) the Church of England
Which group wanted to purify (clean up) the Church of England? They came to America to escape persecution (harassment) in England. Puritans
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What was the first representative government in the American colonies?
The House of Burgesses
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Which colony was first settled by people from the Netherlands
Which colony was first settled by people from the Netherlands? It was called New Netherlands New York
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Which group came for freedom of religion
Which group came for freedom of religion? They settled in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Pilgrims
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Which laws restricted (controlled) the trade of the colonists
Which laws restricted (controlled) the trade of the colonists? What was an example of one of those rules? The Navigation Acts Example: colonists could ONLY use English ships to carry their goods
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Goods brought into a country
Imports
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Goods sent out of a country
Exports
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The belief the mother country should make money from their colonies
Mercantilism
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The belief the mother country should make money from their colonies
Mercantilism
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What was the name of the slave trip to the “New World”?
The Middle Passage
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What were the three main products shipped on the Triangular Trade?
Sugar/Rum, guns, and slaves were the main products
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What was the name of the slave trip to the “New World”?
The Middle Passage
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What was the first successful English colony?
Jamestown
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What were two problems that colonists faced at Jamestown?
1. Deaths due to unhealthy water and malaria 2. Were attacked by Native Americans 3. Starvation
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For the next 8 slides, I am going to give you clues
For the next 8 slides, I am going to give you clues. They answer will be 1. New England colonies 2. Middle colonies or 3. Southern colonies
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Rocky Soil & Subsistence Farming
New England
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The “Breadbasket Colonies”
Middle
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Rice, Indigo & Cotton Southern
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Fishing & Shipbuilding
New England
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Religious Intolerance
New England
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Trade & Commerce Middle
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Plantations and Slavery
Southern
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Religious & Ethnic Diversity
Middle
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Bonus question: What were the 3 main reasons Spain settled the New World? (Explain the 3 g’s
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