8th Grade STAAR Study Sheet

Wealth, Religion, Expanding empires, Claiming territory:

• Southern Colonies Economy

• Reasons for Exploration

• Reasons for Colonization

• Mercantilism

Claimed Florida, Texas, California, and built missions

• France

• England

• Spain

• Yorktown

Claimed land in the New World to profit from fur trading

• France

• England

• Spain

• Yorktown

Fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, harbors

• Southern Economy

• New England Economy

• Middle Colonies Economy

• Northwest Economy

Transatlantic Slave Trade, plantations, cash crops, fertile soil led to diff. economy than North.

• Southern Economy

• New England Economy

• Middle Colonies Economy

• Northwest Economy

Roger Williams started religious tolerant Rhode Island

• Religious Toleration

• Growth of Representative Government

• Consent of the Governed

• Great Compromise

1st anti-slavery group, lived in Pennsylvania

• Catholics

• Pilgrims

• Puritans

• Quakers

a place for Catholics to live peacefully

• Maryland

• Pennsylvania

• Virginia

• Georgia

Distance from Britain, Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Reasons for Colonization

• Reasons for Exploration

• Reasons for growth of representative government

• Reasons for annexation

British controlled colonial trade, angered colonists. Mother country

• Ordinance

• Federalism

• Civil Disobedience

• Mercantilism