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Colonial AmericaJeopardy Review

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Early Colonial

Stuff

Vocabulary of the Colonies

Why did you Come here?

Big Time Influential Stuff

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Who is Christopher Columbus?

This European kicked off the

Age of Exploration with his

arrival to the New World in 1492.

•This is the belief that the wealthier your nation is, the stronger it is and was

the reason why many European explorers were

sent out.•100

What is Mercantilism?

•This colony, starting out as Jamestown, was founded to make money for a certain

joint-stock company by hopefully finding gold and

silver.•100

What is Virginia?

•This was the first representative

government in the Americas.

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What is the House of Burgesses?

•This colony, founded in 1607, was the first

permanent and successful English colony in the New

World.

•200

What is Jamestown?

•These are crops that are grown and sold to make a profit for the grower.

•200

What are cash crops?

•The reason New England colonies did not have large plantations for

farming was this.•200

What is rocky soil and cold climate?

•On the way to the New World, the Pilgrims wrote

this which stated their intent to settle, to stay loyal to the King of England and stated that they wanted

self-government.•200

What is the Mayflower Compact?

•Landing in 1620, this group of people wanted

to start a new church and started the Plymouth

colony. •300

Who are the Pilgrims?

•From the King: I have approved your this,

giving you written permission to create

settlements in an area.•300

What is a charter?

•James Oglethorpe believed this colony

could be a great place to send people in debt or poor to make a fresh

start.•300

What is Georgia?

•Mmmmmm, this is a tasty fact. This was the

first rebellion in the colonies.

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What is Bacon’s Rebellion?

•This place was the site of the first English attempt

at settling the New World. It failed….

•400

What is Roanoke?

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What is a proprietary colony?

•If you lived under the rule of an individual or individuals who owned all the land in

the colony and ran the government, you would be

in this type of colony. •400

•This colony was founded as a place where Quakers could be free to express

their religious views (that didn’t include eating

oatmeal) •400

What is Pennsylvania?

•Slavery was much more prominent in the Southern colonies

because of this reason.•400

What is the demand for labor to grow cash crops?

•This future southern U.S. state was under the control of the Spanish and was a

threat to English control of the east coast.

•500

What is Florida?

•Puritans saw the Anglican church as corrupt and wrong. They sought to

do this to it.•500

What is reform?

•Roger Williams started this colony with the intention of

creating a place of true religious freedom where anyone of any faith could

worship freely. Kind of like what we have today, right?

•500

What is Rhode Island?

•Thomas Hooker led a group of people out of

Massachusetts, angry at how the colonial government was

ruling. They founded a colony and wrote this, the first written constitution in

the Americas.•500

What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?