Exploration and Colonization

this term defines the time of American history prior to the year 1776

• Jamestown

• Plantations

• Colonial Period

• Mayflower Compact

ability to choose and follow one's spiritual beliefs

• Individual Rights

• Religious Freedom

• Self-Government

• Colonization

The country that sent explorers to claim land south and west of the Mississippi River for gold, ranching and farming.

• Spain

• England

• France

• China

The first English colony established in 1607.

• Magna Carta

• Jamestown

• New York City

• Philadelphia

A large farming operation located in the southern colonies.

• Plantation

• Columbian Exchange

• Slave Trade

• House of Burgesses

The country that claimed most of the Atlantic coast of North America.

• England

• France

• Spain

• Canada

The king of England's first effort at protection of individual rights.

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Magna Carta

• Columbian Exchange

The act of seeking and claiming new land for economic, political, and social gain.

• Exploration

• Social Benefit

• Colonization

• Self-Government

Colonization for the purpose of creating more wealth.

• Economic Gain

• Social Benefit

• Self-Government

• Religious Freedom

Operation that captured and sold people from their homeland to work on colonial plantations.

• Slave Trade

• Magna Carta

• Columbian Exchange

• Social Benefit