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Study Guide over Colonial Times Map Section Please be able to label the 13 colonies on a map And be able to label Northern, Middle and Southern Be able to explain why the colonies were on the coastline ● Colonists could stay better connected with England across the Atlantic. Scary to go further inland when not accustomed to the land
Northern Middle Southern
Connecticut Delaware Georgia Massachusetts Bay New Jersey Maryland New Hampshire New York North Carolina Rhode Island Pennsylvania South Carolina Virginia
Northern, Southern and MIddle Colonies Be able to compare and contrast (use your chart from class to study)
What were the 3 regions of the 13 Colonies 1. 2. 3.
New England Colonies Most colonists lived in small towns, raised their own food, and went to town meetings. Farming, fishing, whaling, and shipbuilding were important. Farming was difficult with long, cold winters, a short growing season, and rocky layers of soil.
Why was farming difficult in New England
New England colonies practiced ______-______. This means that each town created its own laws and everyone agreed to follow those laws.
MIddle Colonies Rich, fertile soil and a moderate climate helped produce so much grain that the Middle Colonies were called the ______of the colonies. Farming, trading, and shipping were important
The middle colonies were called the Breadbasket colonies because they produced large amounts of______?
Where did many of the people in the MIddle Colonies work?
Southern Farming supported the colonies. Their hot weather and fertile soil were great for farming. Small farms and large plantations grew and sold cash crops. Indentured servants and slaves worked to grow the crops. Tobacco, cotton, rice, and indigo were important crops.
These colonies had rocky soil that was difficult to farm
These colonies had the warmest winters and the winters were easier to survive.
These colonies had an economic system based on slave plantations
Fishing and whaling were important industries in these colonies
Which group arrived in the Americas earlier than the others? Vikings
Explain why French settlement in North America was slower than in the English Colonies?
What role did Margaret Brent play in the government and economy of Maryland? (pg 90)
Who was John Locke? What did he do for Carolina? (pg 90)
Vocabulary Section
1. Charter-(pg 71)
2. Act of Toleration (pg 88)
3. Charter colony (pg 110)
4. Joint stock company-(pg 71)
5. Burgesses (pg 73)
6. Dissent (pg 76)
7. Persecute (pg 76)
8. Toleration (pg 79)
9. Patroon (pg 83) 10.Pacifists (pg 85)
11.Piligrim (pg 77)
12.Mayflower Compact (pg 77)
13.Puritans (pg 77)
14.Separatists (pg 77)
15.Subsistence farming (pg 101)
16.Cash crop (pg 103)
17.Proprietary colony (pg 111)
18.Royal colony (pg 111)
19.Apprentice- (pg 112)
20.Literacy (pg 113)
21.Export (pg 109)
22.Import(pg 109)
23.Mercantilism (pg 109)
24.Smuggling (pg 109)
25.Overseers (pg 106)
26.Triangular Trade ( pg 102) 27.Diversity (pg 104)
28. Tidewater (pg 105)
29.Backcountry (pg 105)
30. Slave codes (pg 106)
31.Indentured servant (pg 87)
32.Debtors (pg 90)
33.Middle Passage (pg 102)
34. Toleration (pg 79)
Sections
Lost Colony of Roanoke Colony (page 71) Important Players/ Places Sir Humphrey Gilbert- use your notes ●
Sir Walter Raleigh- use your notes First Attempt
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Roanoke Island- (be able to explain the story!) notes
What did they learn from Roanoke? Notes
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John White-
What were four reasons people wanted to leave? (note) 1. 2. 3. 4.
How was establishing colonies not for the faint of heart? (notes) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Jamestown Which Company established the Jamestown colony?
Why did the settlers choose a peninsula on which to build Jamestown?
Who saved the Jamestown colony and what crop saved them?
Be able to compare and contrast Jamestown colony vs. Plymouth
Why did the Jamestown Colony have a “rough time of it”?
Who is this person?
Who is this person?
This European Nation played the biggest role in colonizing the eastern seaboard of America.
John Smith and Pocahontas Please be able to explain the story of John Smith and Pocahontas
What area of modern United States did John Smith name? ●
Why do some historians doubt the authenticity of John Smith’s account of being saved by Pocahontas?
Pilgrims Identify reasons why the Separatists left Europe for America?
These settlers arrived to the America aboard the Mayflower?
Puritans Why did the Puritans come to New England?
How were Puritan women treated differently from men?
Describe Puritan leaders
The ______were a religious group that wanted to “purify” or make changes to the Church of England
The Puritan settlement was called the ______Colony
One of the founders of Massachusetts Bay Colony and the colony’s first governor was ______.
Quakers He was famous as a follower of the Quaker religion and the leader of the Pennsylvania colony
Explain the creation of Pennsylvania
What are the three main principles? 1. 2. 3.
What were the Quakers for and against? notes
What was the Mason Dixon Line? (pg 88)
What was the Act of Toleration (pg 88)
Compare and Contrast Quakers vs. Puritans (notes)
Quakers
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Puritans
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Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams Who was Anne Hutchinson?
Who was Roger Williams?
Mayflower Compact
What best explains the purpose of this document?
We, whose names are underwritten, . . . Do by these Presents, solemnly and mutually, in the Presence of God and one another, . . . covenant and combine ourselves together into a civil Body Politick, for our better Ordering and Preservation, and Furtherance of the Ends aforesaid: And by Virtue hereof do enact, constitute, and frame, such just and equal Laws, Ordinances, Acts, Constitutions, and Officers, from time to time, as shall be thought most meet and convenient for the general Good of the Colony; unto which we promise all due Submission and Obedience.
—Mayflower Compact, 1620
This was signed by 41 English colonists on Nov. 11th, 1620, and was the first written framework government in what is now the United States
Who wrote this compact?
King Philip’s War (this can be found in your interactive Notes in notebook)
This was the last major effort by the Native Americans to drive out the English settlers and occurred in 1675
Who was King Philip?
Why did King Philip begin to resent the English colonists?
What event sparked King Philip’s War?
These three Indian tribes were involved in the fighting (in reading worksheet) 1. 2. 3.
Describe the actions of the Indians during King Philip’s War
What did the colonists do to stop King Philip’s War?
Describe King Philip’s death
What impact did this war have?
Middle Passages True or False Africans travelled the Middle Passage Willingly.
Use two words to describe conditions aboard the slave ships
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Triangular Trade This is the name for the trade system between England, Africa, and America Triangular Trade
● Manufactured goods shipped from Europe
Use the information in the table to answer the question that follows.
The American colonies listed in the table were established primarily for what purpose?
Colony Year Founded Founder
Maryland 1632 Lord Baltimore
Providence 1636 Roger Williams
Pennsylvania 1681 William Penn
● To escape religious persecution
Settling the 13 colonies
Georgia
Why was this colony founded what was the purpose?
James Oglethorpe founded Georgia as a home for British prisoners. Based on the map, what was another reason for Georgia becoming a colony?
Rhode Island
Who founded this colony
Why was it founded?
Massachusetts Bay
What group first settled this colony?
Why did this group leave England?
New York
What nation originally colonized there?
Bacon’s Rebellion
Why did Bacon oppose the colonial government?
Do you think uprisings such as Bacon’s Rebellion were sign of more unrest to come? Explain your answer