Review for Colonial Era-1600’s

Standards 1, 2, 4: a

The immigrants who were blown off course by a storm and landed in

Plymouth were called the

•Pilgrims

The Colony established by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson for reasons of religious freedom was

•Rhode Island

The man who “saved” Jamestown from extinction by saying only

those who worked could eat was

•John Smith

The theory that if a country’s wealth increased, all other

country’s wealth decreased was called

•Mercantilism

The war between the Native Americans and the Puritans

was called

•King Philip’s War

The portion of the triangular trade that brought slaves to the New

World was called the

•Middle Passage

New York city was once called

•New Amsterdam

The Puritans established what colony

•Massachusetts Bay Colony

The English seized this island at the base of the Hudson River’s

mouth and called it

•New York City

Indian tribal chief who gave the Jamestown colonists food and helped them survive was called

•Powhatan

The Puritans were called Dissenters because they

•Disagreed with the Anglican Church and wanted to purify it

The breadbasket of the colonies is

•New York and Philadelphia

Montesquieu and Locke influenced what American documents

•Declaration of Independence

•Constitution

Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield

• Preached the Great Awakening, a series of revivals, in the Colonial Era

• They told people they had freedom to chose whether to serve God or not and therefore could chose their future and afterlife

The Americas, Africa, England

• 3 points of the Triangular trade

Colonies

Europe

Africa

Examples of a Proprietary Colony

• Pennsylvania / Philadelphia

Examples of a royal colony

•Jamestown

Joint stock company

•Financed the settlement at Jamestown

Tobacco

•Made the fortunes of Jamestown settlers

first elected legislative assembly in the New World

•House of Burgesses

Examples of religious colonies

• Massachusetts Bay Colony

• Maryland

House of Burgesses is known for what and where

• In Virginia

• First locally elected legislative assembly in North America

Middle Passage

• Leg of the Triangular trade that carried slaves from Africa to the colonies

Peter Stuyvesant

• Dutch Governor of the colony of New Netherlands when the English came to take it over

New Amsterdam

• The main city of the Dutch colony of New Netherlands

• Located on the island of Manhattan

• Later called New York city

first permanent English settlement

•Jamestown

Mercantilism wants what

•Resources like timber and tobacco from the colonies

buffer colony

•Georgia

Nathaniel Bacon

• Led revolt against Jamestown because as a newly freed indentured servant he wanted more land and specifically Indian land

• Almost burnt down Jamestown but then his bacon got fried

Mayflower compact established what?

• First step towards democracy and representative government in the New World

Why did the English colonists begin to use slaves

• After Bacon’s Rebellion, no longer trusted indentured servants

What was preached in the Great Awakening

•Whitefield and Edwards

Cabot did what

•Explored North America for England and gave her a claim here

Vespucci did what

•Gave his name to America

The Holy Experiment is what

• The Quaker colony of Philadelphia

• So called because the Quakers wanted to try to live in peace with all peoples

group that settled Maryland and why

• English Roman Catholics running from religious persecution in England

group that settled Pennsylvania

•English Quakers

Dutch colony in North America

•New Netherlands

Why did England want colonies?

• To gain wealth

• Have more resources

• Strategic defense in times of war

• Establish themselves as an empire

John Locke influenced what?

•The Declaration of Independence

Three ways that democracy grew in colonies

•House of Burgesses

•Mayflower compact

•Town meetings

Two steps toward representative government in colonies

• Mayflower Compact and House of Burgesses

Who limited colonies’ trade with other nations and why?

• The mother country because she was not into sharing any of that wealth with another country or letting another country become rich with her colonies

Great Awakening was led/preached by who?

•Edwards and Whitefield

Where did the Puritans settle

• Massachusetts Bay Colony in New England

Colony Built on Smoke

•Jamestown

Ben Franklin did what

• Invented swim fins, bifocals

• Experimented with electricity

• Published books, advice column, articles and news and a almanac

• Was a diplomat

What area had more peaceful relations with Native Americans

and why

• Quebec because they were not after land and instead trapped for furs which were seen as an eternal resource

How did the Great awakening affect the 13 colonies?

• Led people to realize that they had a choice in their religion and therefore their politics, government, economics, and ruler

Florida belonged to what country in the 1600’s?

•Spain

Colonial symbol of the ideal man and why?

• Ben Franklin because he worked his way from very poor to rich, did well in so many areas, was wise and hard working, had a sense of humor, and treated people equally

Colony based on search for gold

•Jamestown

In what year was Jamestown settled

•1607

What year did the Pilgrims land in Cape Cod?

• 1620 which is in the 17th century

Montesquieu believed in what?

•Separation of powers in a government

William Penn did what and is what?

• Settled Philadelphia, one of the 13 colonies, and was a Quaker

Quakers belief involves what

• Do not go to war

• Do not use weapons against people

• Do not allow slavery

Philadelphia was created by whom

•William Penn

What did the belief in mercantilism limit in the colonies?

•Free trade with other countries

New Netherlands

•Name of colony founded by the Dutch East India company in the New World

Know Location of 13 colonies on a map

Separatists are who? And what do they want to do?

• Pilgrims because they wanted to separate from the Anglican church

Town meetings are one of the steps towards what?

•Democracy and representative government

First British colony that fails because it disappeared without a

trace

•Roanoke

Dissenters are who? And what do they want to do?

•Puritans who disagree with the Anglican church and want to purify it

What portion of the triangular trade brought slaves to America

•The Middle Passage

A result of King Philip’s war

• Beginning of an American identity among the colonists

• The colonists no longer think of themselves as English but as the colonists

What items did the Columbian exchange bring to the colonies that

positively affected the colonist’s survival in the New World?

• Horse, pig , honey bees, earth worms, apples,

What is New England noted for?

• Poor soil

• Fish

• Timber

• Ship building

• Artisans

• Small farms and business

• Women taught to read and write

What are the Southern colonies noted for?

• Rural

• Farming

• Few factories

• Minimal water power

• More slaves

When Massachusetts lost its charter to be a colony, a governor (Andros) was appointed by the King but he did what

which resulted in his running away on a ship back to England before he was

killed by the colonists?

• He stopped town meetings and assemblies

Half way covenant is about what?

• The Puritans trying to allow people to remain in the church while not following all of the church rules

The fur trade in Quebec led to what kind of relationship with the Native

Americans?

• a more peaceful one then the 13 colonies had

John Locke advocated what?

• all people are equal and independent and have a right to life, liberty, property . In some cases, where people’s rights are being abused, revolution is a right also.

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

•Thomas Jefferson

In mercantilism how is wealth measured?

•Gold and Silver

Indian who gave the Pilgrims food and helped them survive

was called

•Squanto

Who did Quebec belong to in the 17th century?

•New France

Who was King Philip? And what did he do?

• Native American Leader (Metacom) in New England who made a last stand against the White man but did not win the war named after him

Salem, Mass is noted for what?

•Salem witch trials

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