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1
European Exploration and Colonization
2
What European country explored and settled the
Caribbean, Central America, and South America?
  • Spain

3
For what two reasons did Englishmen settle in
North America?
  • Religious Freedom
  • Economic Opportunity

4
What religious group settled New England?
  • The Puritans

5
What was another name for the Church of England?
  • The Anglican Church

6
What was the major reason for the settlement of
New England?
  • Religious Freedom

7
Who settled at Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620?
  • The Separatists
  • commonly called the Pilgrims

8
What agreement signed by the male settlers at
Plymouth helped establish the notion of
self-government in the Americas?
  • The Mayflower Compact

9
Who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
  • The Puritans

10
How did the Puritans get their name?
  • The Puritans wanted to purify or reform the
    Anglican Church.

11
What was the basic unit of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony?
  • The Church Congregation
  • Each congregation established a Town

12
Where did the Puritans practice a form of direct
democracy?
  • At Town Meetings

13
Which colony did the Pilgrims settle?
  • Plymouth

14
What three European groups chiefly settled the
Middle Atlantic region?
  • English
  • Dutch
  • Germans

15
What was the major reason for the settlement of
Virginia and the other Southern colonies?
  • Economic Opportunity

16
Who founded the Virginia colony as a business
venture?
  • The Virginia Company of London

17
Who were the English nobility who received large
land grants in Virginia from the King of England
and helped settle the colony?
  • Cavaliers

18
Define indentured servant?
  • A person who agreed to work a certain number of
    years in exchange for payment of his passage to
    America.

19
What was the first permanent English settlement
in North America?
  • Jamestown

20
What became the cash crop of the Virginia colony?
  • Tobacco

21
What was the first elected assembly (lawmaking
body) in the New World?
  • The House of Burgesses

22
With what colony does one associate the Cavaliers?
  • Virginia

23
Where did many poor English immigrants settle in
the Virginia colony?
  • In the Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia

24
What regions of the Western Hemisphere did the
Spanish explore and settle?
  • The Caribbean
  • Central America
  • South America

25
What region of the Western Hemisphere did the
French explore?
  • Canada

26
Who had better relations with the First
Americans, the British or the French?
  • The French

27
How did English colonization affect the American
Indians?
  • Lost territory
  • Died from European diseases, especially smallpox

28
What group did Europeans force to come to the
Americas?
  • Africans

29
Name four characteristics of the economy of the
New England colonies?
  • Shipbuilding
  • Fishing
  • Lumbering
  • Subsistence Farming

30
Name three characteristics of the economy of the
Middle Colonies?
  • Shipbuilding
  • Small farms
  • Trading

31
What was the economic basis of the Southern
colonies?
  • Cash crops raised on large Plantations

32
What formed the basis of the economy of the
Southern colonies in the mountains and valleys of
the Appalachian foothills?
  • Subsistence farming
  • Hunting
  • Trading

33
What were the three cash crops of the Southern
colonies?
  • Tobacco
  • Rice
  • Indigo

34
What were the two cash crops in South Carolina?
  • Rice
  • Indigo

35
Which English colonies believed in private
property and free enterprise (profit)?
  • ALL

36
What trade pattern brought Africans to the
English colonies?
  • The Triangular Trade

37
What was the name of the forced voyage of African
slaves from their homes to the New World?
  • The Middle Passage

38
According to the SOL, what were the 3 points in
the Triangular Trade?
  • The New England Colonies
  • The West Indies
  • Africa

39
To what major conflict did the Southern colonies
slavery-based agricultural economy eventually
lead?
  • The Civil War

40
What does religious tolerance mean?
  • Freedom of Religion

41
What religious group settled Pennsylvania?
  • Quakers

42
What religious group settled Maryland?
  • Roman Catholics

43
What two groups of colonists generally believed
in religious tolerance?
  • Quakers
  • Roman Catholics

44
What are the eastern lowlands of the Atlantic
Coastal Plain called?
  • Tidewater

45
What was the background of the small farmers,
hunters, and traders in the mountains and valleys
of the inland South?
  • Scotch-Irish
  • English

46
What religious movement swept the American
colonies in the mid-1700s?
  • The Great Awakening

47
Name two important leaders of the Great Awakening?
  • George Whitefield
  • Jonathan Edwards

48
What two denominations grew rapidly as a result
of the Great Awakening?
  • Baptists
  • Methodists

49
What religious movement of the mid-18th century
preached fire and brimstone sermons to
encourage spiritual rebirth?
  • The Great Awakening

50
What did the Great Awakening challenge?
  • The religious order of the colonies
  • The governmental order of the colonies
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