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- These laws placed restrictions on colonial trade by dictating that colonial goods could only be shipped to England. Colonists began smuggling as a result.
- The ___ was the region in the colonies that ran along the Appalachian Mountains.
- What were the two main colonies of the Chesapeake region?
- Give three examples of places in which Jim Crow laws were in effect in the 1870s?
- This religious group settled mainly in Pennsylvania. They were pacifists who became early leaders in the abolitionist (anti-slavery) and women's rights movements.
- THESE laws were enacted after Bacons Rebellion. They helped institute racism and white supremacy by dividing poor white from blacks.
- THIS extremely deadly conflict between the Puritans and their former Indian allies in 1675-76 resulted in a Puritan victory and the virtual destruction of the Wampanoag people.
- The ____ colonies were characterized by Puritan religious values, fishing, shipping and commerce (trade), and subsistence farming.
- A business where a number of investors could pool their money together and invest it--this helped finance England's New World expeditions.
- James Oglethorpe founded ______ a colony that the king made into a "buffer colony" to protect the other 12 from Spanish Florida.
- Exchange of rum, slaves, and molasses between the English colonies, Africa, and the West Indies. A small but immensely profitable subset of the Atlantic trade.
- His leadership skills at Jamestown helped the struggling colony during its early years.
- Which religious group was not tolerant of other faiths. They would sometimes persecute (and a few times even execute) members of other religious groups who proselytized in their colony?
- She taught salvation through grace and faith, not through following Puritan rules and laws, which got her banished from Massachusetts.
- What was the monoculture (main crop) of the Caribbean?
- What was the monoculture (main crop) of the Carolinas?
- What was the monoculture (main crop) of the Chesapeake region?
- The ___ colonies were characterized by large plantations with slave labor and cash crops of tobacco, indigo, and rice.
- The ____ colonies (aka the Breadbasket colonies) were characterized by diverse ethnic groups, commerce and trade, and cash crops of grain.
- George Calvert (aka Lord Baltimore) found this proprietary (personally owned) colony as a refuge from religious persecution for Catholics. (It was known for its toleration of all Christians.)