Level 1- Exploration and Colonization

Europeans Discover and Colonize a new world

Reasons for Exploration

wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory, new trade routes to Asia through Northwest Passage

Spain

Claimed Florida, Texas, California; built missions

France

claimed land in the New World to profit from fur trading

Colonization

People make homes in the New World

New England Colonies

rocky soil, cold climate, harbors, fishing, lumber, and shipbuilding; founded for religous freedom

Religious Toleration

to escape religious persecution, Roger Williams left Massachusetts and founded Rhod

Massachusetts

New England Colony; Puritans/ Pilgrims founded for religious freedom; Boston major port city

Middle Colonies

rich farmland, moderate climate, grew oats, wheat, grain and raised livestock

Quakers

1st anti-slavery group; lived in Pennsylvania

Southern Colonies

fertile soil, warm climate, cash crops; Transatlantic Slave Trade provided slave labor for plantations; founded mainly for economic reasons; Jamestown, Virginia

Maryland

founded for Catholics seeking religious freedom

Reasons for the Growth of Representative Government

distance from Britain, Pilgrim’s Mayflower Compact (social contract), Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, First Great Awak

Mercantilism

British controlled colonial trade; angered colonists