Exploration and colonization

Question 1

What were the reasons for exploration?

Answer 1

Curiosity
wealth
fame
national pride
religion
foreign goods
faster, cheaper, trade routes

Question 2

Why did colonists come to the New World?

Answer 2

Political (new wealth, power and freedom)
Religious (religious freedom and liberty)
Economic (gold, land, and opportunity)
Social (better life and mobility)

Question 3

What year was Jamestown founded?

Answer 3

1607

Question 4

why was Jamestown founded?

Answer 4

economic reasons

Question 5

Who was the captain/leader of Jamestown?

Answer 5

John Smith

Question 6

Who helped grown tobacco in Jamestown and then help save the colony?

Answer 6

John Rolfe

Question 7

What was John Smith’s famous quote (that he got from the Bible)?

Answer 7

“If you don’t work you don’t eat.”

Question 8

How did Pocahontas help Jamestown?

Answer 8

she was the translator (and she married John Rolfe)

Question 9

What year was Plymouth founded?

Answer 9

1620

Question 10

Why was Plymouth founded?

Answer 10

Religious freedom

Question 11

Who founded Plymouth?

Answer 11

Pilgrims

Question 12

Where was Plymouth founded?

Answer 12

Massachusetts

Question 13

What type of environment did Jamestown, Virginia have?

Answer 13

Fertile soil (that’s how they grew tobacco)

Question 14

What type of environment did Plymouth, Massachusetts have?

Answer 14

Rocky soil (that’s why they were hunters and not farmers)

Question 15

Who was William Bradford and why is he important to US history?

Answer 15

William Bradford was the founder and governor of the Plymouth colony (that’s also why he’s important…I guess)

Question 16

What was the document signed by the Pilgrims at Plymouth?

Answer 16

The Mayflower Compact (also 1620)

Question 17

What was the Mayflower Compact?

Answer 17

A form of self-government signed by the Pilgrims

Question 18

Who founded Massachusetts?

Answer 18

The Separatists and the Puritans

Question 19

Why was Massachusetts founded?

Answer 19

For Religious reasons

Question 20

Who founded Rhode Island?

Answer 20

Anne Hitchinson and Roger Williams (after they were thrown out of Massachusetts bay colony)

Question 21

Why was Rhode Island founded?

Answer 21

to practice religious tolerance

Question 22

Who founded Maryland?

Answer 22

Lord Baltimore

Question 23

Why was Maryland founded?

Answer 23

to be a safe haven for Catholics

Question 24

Who founded Pennsylvania?

Answer 24

William Penn

Question 25

Why was Pennsylvania founded?

Answer 25

to be a safe haven for Quakers

Question 26

Who founded Georgia?

Answer 26

James Ogelthrorpe

Question 27

Why was Georgia founded?

Answer 27

for convicts and debtors (criminals and bad people?)

Question 28

What was the Virginia House of Burgesses?

Answer 28

1st form of representative government in the colony

Question 29

What was the Mayflower compact

Answer 29

Self-government doc. signed by the Pilgrims

Question 30

What was the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?

Answer 30

It was the first example of a constitution in the colonies

Question 31

Who wrote/inspired/created the fundamental orders of Connecticult?

Answer 31

Thomas Hooker

Question 32

What were the New England colonies (New Members Really Connect)

Answer 32

New Hampshire Massachusetts Rhode Island Connecticut

Question 33

What were the physical features of the New England colonies?

Answer 33

Rocky soil lumber whaling fishing short growing seasons cooler climate less fertile land long winters, short summers shipbuilding merchants

Question 34

What were the Middle Colonies? (New People New Drama)

Answer 34

New York Pennsylvania New Jersey Delaware

Question 35

What were the physical features of the Middle Colonies?

Answer 35

Bread Basket colony religious diversity Very diverse Mid-Atlantic region grain farms seaports iron works wheat, oats, barley, rye and grain rolling plains and forests fertile soil mild summers, short winters fishing furs shipping

Question 36

What were the Southern colonies (5 hot ladies)

Answer 36

Georgia Maryland Virginia North/South Carolina

Question 37

What were the physical features of the Southern colonies?

Answer 37

warm and humid long growing seasons cash crops flat lands fertile soils plantations (slavery) farms tobacco indigo rice

Question 38

What is Mercantilism?

Answer 38

A trade system that European countries used as a way to gain wealth

Question 39

How did Mercantilism work?

Answer 39

The mother country would ship expensive manufactured products to the colonies (i.e. glass, paper, and tea) and in turn, the colonies have to ship raw materials back to the mother country.

Question 40

What was the triangular trade?

Answer 40

Trade between America, Africa, and Europe

Question 41

How the triangular trade work?

Answer 41

Europe would carry materials to Africa (i.e. metal, clothing, weapons...), Africa would trade it for their people to be used as slave. The slaves would be transported to America (the middle passage) were they were sold to slave owners for cheap labor, then European merchants would purchase the cotton, sugar, and tobacco and the cycle would repeat.

Question 42

What was the Magna Carta?

Answer 42

a doc. that limited the power of the king of England

Question 43

what was the English Bill of Rights?

Answer 43

A doc. that protected the rights of individuals in England

Question 44

Who in the world was John Locke?

Answer 44

someone that argued for peoples natural rights (life, liberty, property)

Question 45

Who was William Blackstone?

Answer 45

An enlgish lawyer and judge

Question 46

Why is William Blackstone important?

Answer 46

"No taxation without representation"

Question 47

What did Charles de Montesquieu argue for?

Answer 47

separation of power and 3 branches.