Exploration and colonization

box 1... One primary reason for british colonization was.

• Religious freedom

• economic reasons

• social reasons

Mercantilism was an economic system that was created for

• free Republics to buy and sell goods all over.

• Kings and Queens to hide their treasures.

• colonies to get rich, rich, rich!

• the mother country to get rich from raw materials of a colony.

box 1... Primary economic cause of colonization

• mercantilism

• slavery

• industry

Quakers left England because they were ___________ for their beliefs.

• persecuted

• applauded

• rewarded

Puritans settled in which region in the 13 colonies

• southern

• new england

• middle colonies

1st representative governing body in the American colonies.

• English Bill of Rights
• Articles of Confederation
• Virginia House of Burgesses
• Congress

What did the Mayflower Compact include?

• It was the first constitution in the colonies
• it had a form of self-government
• in was the first elected legislative assembly in the colonies
• none of these

1620

• Magna Carta
• Bill of Rights
• Mayflower Compact
• Christoper Colombus discovers America

8.3 (B) The Mayflower Compact, House of Burgesses, and FundamentalOrders of Connecticut were important in the development of democracy because they --

• gave all colonists the right to vote.

• ensured religious freedom

• overrode the power of the English king

• allowed colonists to participate in government

The distance from Great Britain led to

• the development of self-government

• establishing a king for each colony

• increased shipbuilding for travel

• Parliament establishing new religious traditions in Great Britain