Homework SOL VUS.2&3 American Colonies, Ms. Moore, September 18, 2015

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What was the economy of the Southern colonies based on?

"Cash crops" such as tobacco, rice and indigo

What were the Virginia landowners known as?

"Cavaliers" were English nobility.

In what year was Jamestown settled?

1607

In what year were slaves brought to Jamestown?

1619

The middle colonies developed what class of workers?

A middle class of skilled artisans, entrepreneurs(business owners), and small farmers

What did all the colonists have a strong belief in?

A strong belief in private ownership of property and free enterprise characterized colonial life everywhere.

In what part of the world did the English settle?

American colonies

Where did the French settle?

Canada

Who were the Puritans intolerant of?

Dissenters, or people who challenged the Puritans' belief in the connection between religion and government.

What was the social structure of the Southern colonies made up of?

Family status and ownership of land

Who were the immigrants that agreed to work on tobacco plantations to pay for their passage to the New World?

Indentured servants

Name the first permanent English settlement in the New World:

Jamestown

Name the group that settled in New York:

Jews and Huguenots

Name the document that established a Covenant Community in New England:

Mayflower Compact

Name two religious groups that were formed during the Great Awakening:

Methodist and Baptist

What group settled in the New England Colonies?

New England was settled by Puritans seeking freedom from religious persecution in Europe. They formed a "covenant community" based on the principles of the Mayflower Compact and Puritan religious beliefs and were often intolerant of those not sharing their religion. They also sought economic opportunity and practiced a form of direct democracy though town meetings.

List the two cities that became seaports and commercial centers in the Middle colonies:

New York and Philadelphia

What were the diddenters from Rhode Island fleeing from?

Persecution by Puritans in Massachusetts

What group settled in New Jersey?

Presbyterians

What group settled in the New England Colonies?

Puritans

Name the religious group that settled in Pennsylvania:

Quakers

What was society based on in New England?

Religious standing

What colony was founded by religious dissenters?

Rhode Island

Immigrantsw from what countries made up the small farmers and hunters in Virginia?

Scots-Irish and English descent

The New England colonies developed an economy based on:

Shipbuilding, small-scale farming, and eventually, manufacturing

The middle colonies developed an economy based on:

Shipbuilding, small-scale farming, and trading

What did the large farms in the South require?

Slaves

Farther inland, near the mountains and valleys, what was the economy based on?

Small-scale subsistence farming, hunting, and trading

Where were the large plantations located?

Southern colonies

Which colonies practiced representative government?

Southern colonies

What nation explored and settled in the Caribbean and Central and South America?

Spanish

What were the religious revivals of the 1700's known as?

The "Great Awakening"

What church still controlled settlers in the Southern colonies?

The Church of England

What is the House of Burgesses known as today?

The General Assembly of Virginia

What happened to the American Indians as a result of the settlements?

The Indians lost their traditional territories and fell victim to diseases carried from Europe.

Why did the New England colonies prosper economically?

The Puritans' had a strong belief in working hard and being thrifty.

What company financed the settlement of Jamestown?

The Virginia Company of London

Name the first elected assembly in the New World:

The Virginia House of Burgesses

Which colonies practiced religious tolerance?

The middle colonies

What type of government did the Puritans practice through town meetings?

They practiced a form of direct democracy though town meetings.

How did the Cavaliers get land in the New World?

They received large land grants in eastern Virgniia from the King of England.

Where in Virginia did the samll farmers and artisans settle?

They settled in the Shenandoah Valley or western Virginia.

English, Dutch and German speaking immigrants settled in which colonies?

They settled in the middle colonies also called Middle Atlantic region.

What reason did settlers of all the colonies have in common for immigrating to the New World?

They were all seeking economic opportunity.

Why did the Puritans come to the New World?

They were seeking freedom from religious persecution in Europe.

Why were Africans brought to Jamestown?

To work the tobacco plantations

What were the cash crops of the Southern colonies?

Tobacco, rice, and indigo

What type of government did the New England colonies use?

Town meetings(an "Athenian" direct democracy model)

True or false? In the middle colonies,the democratic principles reflected the basic rights of Englishmen.

True

True or false? Southerners had closer ties with Britain than those who settled in the other colonies.

True


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