STAAR Review

wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory

• Reasons for exploration
• Northern Social
• Middle Colonies
• Westward Expansion

Claimed Florida, Texas & California & built missions

• France
• England
• Spain
• 13 Colonies

Claimed land in New World to profit from beaver FUR trading

• France
• England
• Spain
• 13 Colonies

fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, harbors

• Western Economy
• Southern Economy
• Middle Economy
• New England Economy

Roger Williams started religious toleration in Rhode Island

• Freedom of Speech
• Religious Toleration
• Right to Bear Arms
• Political Freedom

Transatlantic Slave Trade, plantations, cash crops, fertile soil led to different economy than the North

• Western Economy
• Southern Economy
• Middle Economy
• New England Economy

1st anti-slavery group, lived in Pennsylvania and led by William Penn

• Catholics
• Anti-Federalists
• Quakers
• Abolitionists

a place for Catholics to live peacefully

• Maryland
• Pennsylvania
• Massachusetts
• Georgia

distance from Britain, Mayflower Compact (social contract), Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut, Town Halls

• Religious Toleration
• Reasons for growth of Representative/Self government
• Freedom of Speech
• Right to Bear Arms

British controlled colonial trade, angered colonists because they could only trade with the Mother Country England

• Mercantilism
• New England Colonies
• Reasons for growth of Representative/Self government
• Triangle Trade