STAAR Review exploration & Revolution

Spainish Motivations for exploration

• Fur & Fish

• Gold, Gold & Glory

• Northwest Passage & Profit

• Relious Freedom

French Motivation for exploration

• Gold, God, & Glory

• Fur & Fish

• Northwest Passage

• Religous freedom

British Motivation for exploration

• Northwest Passage, Religous Freedom, & Profit

• Gold, God & Glory

• Fur & Fish

• Ohio River Valley

Jamestown founded

• in 1607 for profit (Cashcrops)

• in 1620 for religous freedom

• in 1607 to escape taxation

• in 1620 for jobs

Reason for self government

• trading rights

• taxation without representation

• distance from Britain

• Political Freedom

What wqas the significance of the Mayflower compact

• 1st social contract

• 1st constitution

• 1st form of representative government

• 1st democracy

!st representative government

• Mayflower Compact

• House of Burgesses

• Fundament orders of Conneticut

• Bicameral Congress

Settled by Pilgrims in 1620 and Puritans, Ship building, fishing, cold winters

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Confederacy

Quakers, Breadbasket, diverse, moderate climate

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• New Enlgand Colonies

• Union

Catholics, Plantations, Slaves, Cash Crops, Fertile soil, Hot Climate

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• New England Colonies

• Trail of Tears