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  • Who did the farmers in the Southern colonies rely on for farming?
    slaves and indentured servants
  • What was Maryland founded for?
    a refuge for English Catholics
  • Which states belong in the Southern colonies?
    Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
  • What did the British government pass after the Boston Tea Party?
    the Intolerable Acts
  • What group of people took over in the middle colonies?
    Quakers
  • What are quakers?
    They rejected formal set worship, open to all religions
  • What was the biggest crop for plantations?
    tobacco
  • Who is Pocahontas?
    Powhatan's daughter
  • Which states belong in the New England colonies?
    Massachusetts. New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
  • What was the most important business in the New England colonies?
    fishing
  • What was the issue with the terrain in the New England Colonies?
    Not good for farming
  • What was the purpose of the Navigation Acts?
    to enforce Mercantilism
  • Who comes in to save Jamestown?
    John Smith
  • What is the English Bill of Rights?
    limited the powers of the monarch, gave more power to parliament
  • What was the Headright system?
    by a ticket to Virginia > get 50 acres of land
  • What was the first colony granted a charter by King James I?
    Virginia
  • What was the climate and land ideal for in the Middle Colonies?
    agriculture/farming
  • Who founded Pennsylvania?
    William Penn
  • What was the first permanent settlement in North America?
    Jamestown
  • What was the Boston Massacre used for?
    propaganda
  • What will end up happening to Jamestown?
    it gets burnt to the ground
  • What are the Navigation Acts?
    laws that prohibited/taxed goods traded with countries other than Britain
  • What replaces the Headright system?
    the Slave Trade
  • Why was Rhode Island founded?
    for religious and political freedom
  • What type of people mostly made up the New England colonies?
    Puritans
  • Which states belong in the Middle colonies?
    New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
  • What is a joint-stock company?
    a business owned by people called shareholders
  • What church did the Puritans and Pilgrims break away from?
    Church of England
  • What is Mercantilism?
    a system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade
  • Why was Georgia founded?
    economic opportunities for debtors / buffer for spanish Florida
  • What is the Middle Passage?
    the voyage across the Atlantic Ocean that enslaved Africans were forced to endure
  • What were Puritans?
    Those who wanted to "purify" christianity
  • Virginia becomes what after its charter is cancelled?
    Royal Colony
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