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What European country colonized the modern-day east coast of the United States? (13 Colonies)
Great Britain/England
Economic benefits of Colonies to Mother Countries
markets and goods to support trade
Without the introduction of this Cash Crop, the Colony of Jamestown would have never succeeded.
Tobacco
The production of labor-intensive cash crops SUCH as TOBACCO led the Southern Colonies to rely on what economic practice?
The use of African Slave labor
3 reasons for European Exploration of the Americas
1. New trade routes to Asia,
2. the desire to find gold and wealth,
3. the need to spread religious beliefs
Name 3 ways European exploration impacted Native Americans (Indians).
1. Native American Indians were displaced from their native lands.
2. Diseases brought by Europeans caused large numbers of Native American deaths.
3. Native Americans became involved in a series of wars involving colonial powers.
Quakers originally settled in what colony?
Pennsylvania
Virginia's House of Burgesses was the first type of what kind of government attempted in Britain's North American Colonies?
Representative Democracy
Roman Catholics originally settled in what colony?
Maryland
This colony was established as a place to escape debtors prison.
Georgia
Define: Primary Source
Is information that was created at the same time as an event or by a person directly involved in the event.
Define: Secondary Source
Is information from somewhere else or by a person not directly involved in the event.
Puritans originally settled in what colony?
Massachusetts
First Person to circumnavigate the world. (prove you could sail around the world)
Ferdinand Magellan
He sailed across the Atlantic Ocean and unknowingly discovered North and South America.
Christopher Columbus
3 Religious Reasons for European colonization of the Americas;
1. Create religious utopias
2. Escape religious persecution
3. Convert Native Americans to Christianity
What European country originally colonized most of Canada and founded Quebec?
France
What European country colonized most of North and South America?
Spain
A temperate climate, meaning warm summers and cold winters, best describes what colonial region?
Middle
Name the New England Colonies
New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Connecticut
Name the Middle Colonies
Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware
Name the Southern Colonies
North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Maryland, Virginia
A warm climate with hot summers and mild winters best describes what colonial region?
Southern
This Colonial Region was founded by the Puritans to escape religious persecution in England.
New England
These Colonies were known as the "Bread-Basket Colonies".
Middle
This colonial region's main source of income came from cash crops such as Indigo, Rice, and Tobacco.
Southern
This group of religious reformers wanted to "purify" Christianity and were persecuted in England for their beliefs.
Puritans
Fishing, Shipbuilding, Whaling, and Timber are the major economic activities of what Colonial Region?
New England
What colonial region's Economy relied heavily on slave labor and indentured servants to work on their large plantations?
Southern
Rocky soil and long, cold winters best describe what colonial region.
New England
The Columbian Exchange and Triangle Trade were the establishment of trade routes between what three regions of the world?
1. The Americas (North and South)
2. Europe
3. Africa
Colonies were expected to produce what for the mother Country?
Raw materials
2 lasting cultural effects of European Colonization still seen in the U.S. today.
1. Christian Religion
2. European Languages
Define: MERCANTILISM
The economic system where countries believed wealth and power came from EXPORTING more than IMPORTING.
What Southern Colony was established for Roman Catholics to escape religious persecution in England?
Maryland
Prince Henry the Navigator
He started an important Navigational School in Portugal in 1419, and sponsored sailors to explore the Coast of Africa to find an all-water route to India.
Vasco de Gama
He sailed from Portugal AROUND the southern tip of Africa (the Cape of Good Hope) and reached INDIA in 1498.
Bartholomeu Dias
In 1488 was the first European to find the Southern Tip of Africa, which he called the “Cape of Good Hope.”