#1-57 Study Sheet

Reasons for Exploration

• Expand Territory

• Find Cure for Illnesses

• Learn about World Cultures

Claimed Texas and California and Florida

• Spain

• France

• Britain

Profited from Fur Trading in the New World

• Spain

• France

• Britain

New England Economy =

• fishing and lumbering

• plantations and cash crops

• gold and silver

Southern Economy =

• Transatlantic Slave Trade and Cash Crops

• Lumbering and Grain

• Railroads and Factories

1st Anti-Slavery Group in New World

• Quakers

• Puritans

• Pilgrims

Colony established as safe place for Catholics

• Pennsylvania

• Maryland

• Massachusetts

One reason for the growth of representative government was -

• Mayflower Compact

• Treaty of Ghent

• Transatlantic Slave Trade

Law forbidding colonists from crossing Appalachian Mountains =

• Proclamation of 1763

• Treaty of Paris of 1763

• Declaration of Independence

Reason colonists were mad at Britain was their belief in -

• Farming instead of factories

• consent of governed

• allying with the French