1. Civics Activity 1
Solution

2. Enlightenment: 33
When English people began to settle the Americas, they brought with them a history of limited and representative government. These were the ideas of a cultural movement called the enlightenment.

3. Monarch: 33
Another name for a monarch is a King or a Queen.

4. Legislature: 33
Britain’s lawmaking body was called Parliament.

5. Natural Rights: 34
According to the enlightenment writer John Locke everyone posses the rights of life, liberty, and property.

6. Social Contract: 35
A social contract is an agreement among the people in a society. They give up part of their freedom to a government in exchange for protection.

7. Charter: 36
A charter is a written document granting land and authority to set up colonial governments.

8. Joint Stock: 36
A joint stock company was formed by investors who owned the colony and shared in future profits.

9. Proprietary Colony / Royal Colony: 39
A proprietary colony is one where an owner or proprietor owns the land and controls the government. In a Royal colony the king rules and owns the colony.

11. Northern Colonies (New England)
Colony
Industries
Massachusetts
Fish, lumber, rum, whaling, shipbuilding, farming
New Hampshire
Fish, lumber, whaling, fur trapping, shipbuilding, farming
Connecticut
rum, shipbuilding, farming, fish, whaling
Rhode Island
Fish, whaling, shipbuilding, farming

12. Middle Colonies Colony Industries New York Pennsylvania New Jersey
Shipbuilding, farming, grain, cattle, lumber
Pennsylvania
Farming, ironworks
New Jersey
Delaware
Farming, tobacco

13. Southern Colonies Colony Industries Maryland Virginia North Carolina
Farming, tobacco, cattle, fishing
Virginia
North Carolina
Farming, tobacco, naval stores, rice and indigo
South Carolina
Farming, rice and indigo, naval stores
Georgia
Farming, rice and indigo, naval stores, cattle