Day 1 Exploration and Colonization

Defines the time of American history prior to 1776--

• Colonial Period

• Age of Jackson

• Industrial Revolution

Ability to choose and follow one's spiritual beliefs--

• Religious Freedom

• Freedom of Speech

• Freedom of Press

Country that sent explorers to claim land south and west of the Mississippi River for gold, ranching, and farming--

• Spain

• England

• France

First English colony settled in 1607 for the purpose of economic reasons--

• Jamestown

• New York

• Rhode Island

Large farming operations primarily located in the southern colonies--

• Plantations

• Small Farms

Country that claimed most of the Atlantic Coast--

• England

• France

• Spain

The King of England's protection for individual rights and approved taxation--

• Magna Carta

• Mayflower Compact

• Bill of Rights

The act of seeking and claiming new lands for economic, political, and social gain--

• Colonization

• Exploration

Colonization for the purpose of wealth creation--

• Economic gain

• Political Competition

• Social Benefit

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

• Slave Trade

• Mass production

• Industrialization