Colonies Flashcards
(35 cards)
Jamestown was founded by the ________ a ______company dedicated to making a profit.
Virginia Company; joint-stock
The Chesapeake colonies included _____ and _____.
Virginia and Maryland
The climate of the Chesapeake colonies was ________so _____ became a cash crop.
warm and had abundant rainfall and fertile soil; tobacco.
__________made up 3/4 of the 120,000 people who immigrated to the Chesapeake during the 17 century.
Indentured servants.
Indentured servants were replaced by African slaves after ___________ rebelled against Gov. Berkeley captured and burned Jamestown.
Nathaniel Bacon
Bacon’s Rebellion shows the tensions between the ________ and ______.
Wealthy planters and poor former indentured servants.
The number of enslaved Africans in Virginia rose from ____ in ____ to over ____ in ____.
300 in 1650 to over 100,000 in 1750.
Chesapeake colonies had various denominations of
Christianity such as Quakers, Catholics, and Anglicans.
The New England colonies included ______,_______,_____, and _______. These colonies were founded by _____ who were fleeing from _____.
Massachusetts Bay Colony, New Hampshire, Connecticut, and Rhode Island.
The sermon _____ by ______ portrayed American exceptionalism for the first time. It gave the people to mindset and responsibility that they were superior to other countries and people and that they should create a ________. ____said “we must consider that we shall be a city upon a hill, the ___ of all ____are upon us.
City Upon a Hill in 1630 by John Winthrop; model society; John Winthrop.
eyes; peoples.
Puritan authorities banished ____ for her _______ and ________ for his _____________.
Anne Hutchinson; unorthodox religious views.
Roger Williams; unorthodox political views.
Puritans settled in _____ and typically lived in _______ centered around a ________
families; small, tight-knit communities; meetinghouse.
The New England environment featured.
Famers cultivated crops such as
Famers cultivated crops such as
cold, long winters with stony soils and brief growing seasons; wheat, rye, maize, potatoes, and beans.
;fine lumber ships.
The town meetings and representative assemblies were influenced by
British institutions,
The mid-Atlantic colonies included
NY, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware.
The mid-Atlantic colonies had ______ and ____ that promoted commerce and
navigable rivers and deep natural harbors; diverse business opportunity. A
NJ and NY
Thrived in export economy and was diverse. There was a significant high and low class.
Mid Atlantic famers grew abundant crops of
wheat, corn, and other grains.
_____ founded Pennsylvania which was a refuge of ____. Advocated_______ and allowed women to
William Penn; Quakers.
Religious toleration, opposed slavery, and allowed women to speak publicly in religious meetings,
The British West Indies Colonies was dominated by
Sugar Plantations.
The West Indian sugar economy created a society consisting of
filthy rich planter elite, a vast population of enslaves Africans, and a small number of free whites.
Trans-Atlantic Trade occurred between_____ and it was the exchange of ___ and ______
The Americas, Europe, and Africa.
Goods; labor.
________ in navigation and ship construction allowed for improved ____, _____, and _________ across the Atlantic.
Technological advances
transportation, communication, and trade volume.
Mercantilism
British economic policy designed to achieve a favorable balance of trade by exporting more goods than importing in order to achieve this goal, Great Britain purchased raw materials from its American colonies and sold the more expensive manufacture goods.
