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Colonization

Colonization. What does religious toleration mean?. Accepting of someone else’s religion. What immigrants to the New World came involuntarily?. Africans. Who were the Puritans?. English religious group

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Colonization

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  1. Colonization

  2. What does religious toleration mean? • Accepting of someone else’s religion

  3. What immigrants to the New World came involuntarily? • Africans

  4. Who were the Puritans? • English religious group • Believed the Anglican Church should purify or cleanse itself of Roman Catholic ritual and ceremony

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

  6. Where did the Pilgrims settle? • Plymouth, Massachusetts

  7. What basic unit of settlement did Puritan church congregations use in the Massachusetts Bay Colony? • The Town

  8. What type of government did the Puritans use in New England town meetings? • Direct Democracy

  9. What ancient model did New England town meetings follow? • Direct Democracy in the ancient Greek city-state of Athens

  10. What were the two reasons why the Puritans settled in New England? • Religious freedom • Economic opportunity

  11. What European groups settled the Middle colonies? • German • English • Dutch

  12. Why did European immigrants settle the Middle colonies? • Religious freedom • Economic opportunity

  13. What does one call the English nobility who received large land grants in colonial Virginia? • Cavaliers

  14. In what part of colonial Virginia did many poor Englishmen settle? • Shenandoah Valley • Western Virginia

  15. What does one call the colonists who agreed to work for a master for a fixed period of time in exchange for payment of their passage to the New World? • Indentured servants

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

  17. What was the first elected assembly or lawmaking body in the New World? • Virginia House of Burgesses

  18. What became the name of the House of Burgesses after independence? • Virginia General Assembly

  19. What regions of the New World did the Spanish explore and settle? • The Caribbean • Central America • South America

  20. How did colonization affect the Indians? • Died in wars • Pushed off their land • Died of European diseases like smallpox

  21. How did French colonization differ from English colonization? • Fewer French colonists than English colonists • French had better relations with the Indians

  22. What was the result of the Atlantic slave trade? • Europeans forced millions of Africans to come to the Americas against their will.

  23. What were the three regions of English settlement along the Atlantic coast? • New England • Middle colonies • Southern colonies

  24. What was the economic basis of New England? • Subsistence farming • Lumbering • Shipbuilding • Fishing

  25. What is subsistence farming? • Growing only enough food to feed one’s family

  26. What two Puritan values helped the New England colonies succeed? • Hard work • Thrift (saving money)

  27. Name the Middle colonies. • New York • New Jersey • Pennsylvania • Delaware

  28. Name two important seaports and trade centers in the Middle colonies. • New York • Philadelphia

  29. What was the economic basis of the Middle colonies? • Small-scale commercial (for profit) farming • Shipbuilding • Trade

  30. What was the economic basis of the coastal lowlands in the Southern colonies? • Plantations that grew cash crops for export to Great Britain

  31. What was the cash crop of colonial Virginia? • Tobacco

  32. What were the two cash crops of colonial South Carolina? • Rice • Indigo

  33. What was the economic basis of the Appalachian foothillsin the western part of the Southern colonies? • Subsistence farming • Hunting • Trade

  34. What did the English colonists believe about property rights? • A strong belief in private ownership of property • A strong belief in free competition

  35. What two types of labor systems were used on the plantations in the South? • First, indentured servants • Later, African slaves

  36. What was the background of most of the indentured servants in colonial America? • Poor people from: • England • Scotland • Ireland

  37. Where and when did the first Africans arrive in colonial America? • Jamestown • 1619

  38. What term refers to the cruel and inhuman transportation of African slaves by ship from Africa to the New World? • The Middle Passage

  39. What were two results of the labor shortages on the plantations of the English colonies? • African slave trade • Slave labor system

  40. Eventually what war was caused by the development of a slavery-based agricultural economy in the Southern colonies? • American Civil War

  41. What was the basis of society in colonial New England? • Religious standing

  42. What was the Puritans’ attitude towards religious dissenters? • Were intolerant of dissenters, who challenged Puritan beliefs • Intolerant means prejudiced or narrow-minded

  43. What are religious dissenters? • People who disagree with the dominant religion

  44. What religious dissenter founded the Rhode Island colony? • Roger Williams

  45. Why did Roger Williams start the Rhode Island colony? • To flee religious persecution by Puritans in Massachusetts

  46. What religious groups settled in the Middle colonies? • Quakers • Presbyterians • Jews • Huguenots

  47. Where did Quakerssettle? • Pennsylvania

  48. Where did Presbyterians? • New Jersey

  49. Where did Jews settle? • New York

  50. Where did Huguenots settle? • New York

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