Establishing Colonial America
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Why were early American settlements formed? | to make money (mercantilism) |
| What happened in Roanoke? | 1585 everyone returned to Britain 1587 everyone disappeared, death by disease, war with native indians, |
| What was the first settlement in Virginia? | Jamestown 1607 |
| How did the Jamestown colony do at first? | struggled at first but then grew tobacco (cash crop) and then prospered |
| House of Burgesses | first representative govenrment in North American colonies (Jamestown) |
| When did Africans first come to the colonies? What did they do for a living? | 1619 most beame servants |
| What change happened to Jamestown's government? | charter was aboloished then it became a royal colony (of England) |
| Name the New England states | Massachuetts Connecticut Rhode Idland New Hampsire MCRN |
| Name three facts about Massachusetts colony | (1) Founded in 1620 by Puritans who fled because they were persecuted (2) Originally headed for Virginia, but wound up in Massachusetts (3) Mayflower Compact |
| Mayflower Compact | first document in the America for self-government |
| Why was Connecticut formed? | dissatisfied Puritans, wanted more religious freedom The people wanted more government say/tolerance than what was given in Mass. |
| Why was Rhode Island formed? | kicked out of Massachusetts Roger Williams wanted a colony for religious freedom (not just Puritans) |
| Why was NewHampshire formed? | fishing colony |
| Name the Middle Colonies | New York New Jersey Pennsylvania Delaware |
| Why was New York colony formed? | British wanted a colony in between New England and Southern colonies |
| Who originally settled New York? | The Dutch; Britain took it over in the 1660's |
| What kind of religious colony was New York? | tolerant to all religions |
| What is a proprietary colony? | the king gave the land to one or more people in return for a yearly payment. |
| How was the colony of New Jersey founded? | The Duke of York gave some land to his friends |
| Name three facts about the fouding of Pennsylvania? | Willam Penn = founder Quakers-nonviolence wanted religious freedom |
| How did Delaware come to be a colony | broke away from Pennsylvania |
| Name the Southern Colonies | Maryland The Carolinas Georgia |
| Name four facts about the Maryland colony | (1) founded by Lord Baltimore (2) large tracts of land given away (land grants) (3) Needed slaves to work the land (4) Catholics came first, followed by Protestants |
| What kind of lasw about reliion did Maryland have? | it was the first colony where religious toleration became law |
| Why were the Carolinas colonies established? | settled to make money |
| When did North and South Carolina split? | 1712 |
| What made trade hard in North Carolina? | not a lot of harbors to get goods from ships or to sell crops back to England NC relied on Virginia's ports to get goods |
| What helped South Carolina colony to thrive? | it had a big port (Charleston) it had better farm land (more fertile soil) |
| Why was the Georgia colony established? | to give debtors and poor people a fresh start; provide a buffer for the other English colonies from the Spanish colony of Florida |
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