US History Summary Year Review STAAR

Reasons for European Exploration:

• Georgia

• Adventure, free land, Religious Freedom

• Short Growing season, Rocky soil, Cold Climate

• Keep order, distance from England

Main reasons for Spanish Exploration

• Jamestown 1607 John Smith

• Geography

• Fish, Fur & Timber

• Spread Catholicism & search for riches

Main reason for French exploration:

• Fur trade

• Jamestown 1607 John Smith

• Short Growing season, Rocky soil, Cold Climate

• Assemblies, voting, elections representatives

When was the 1st English settlement established?

• Short Growing season, Rocky soil, Cold Climate

• Jamestown 1607 John Smith

• Keep order, distance from England

• Climate, resources and geography, labor needed

New England Religious Colonies:

• Florida, Georgia

• New England, Middle, Southern

• Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts

• New York, Carolinas

Which Colony was established as a refuge of debtors?

• Georgia

• Geography

• Virginia House of Burgess

• Mayflower Compact

What caused economic differences in the colonies?

• Georgia

• Assemblies, voting, elections representatives

• Fur trade

• Geography

List Geographic characteristics of the New England area?

• Short Growing season, Rocky soil, Cold Climate

• Assemblies, voting, elections representatives

• Fish, Fur & Timber

• Tobacco, Rice and Indigo

Characteristics of a representative government:

• Assemblies, voting, elections representatives

• Virginia House of Burgess, Mayflower Compact, Fundamental Order of Connecticut

• Maryland, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Connecticut and Massachusetts

• Spread Catholicism & search for riches

Reasons for a representative government:

• Short Growing season, Rocky soil, Cold Climate

• Spread Catholicism & search for riches

• Keep order, distance from England

• Climate, resources and geography, labor needed