Warm-Up Day 6: Colonization

First representative legislature

• Growth of representative government
• Reasons for exploration
• Quakers
• Virginia House of Burgesses

Rich farmland, moderate climate, grew oats, wheat, grain, and raised livestock     

• American Revolution Era

• Middle colonies

• Quakers
• Reasons for exploration

Claim territory and find new trade routes to Asia through Northwest Passage

• American Revolution Era

• Middle colonies

• Quakers
• Reasons for exploration

A source that is trustworthy or authentic

• Growth of representative government
• Credible

• Quakers
• Virginia House of Burgesses

First anti-slavery group, lived in Pennsylvania

• American Revolution Era

• Reasons for exploration
• Quakers
• Middle colonies

Distance from Great Britain, Mayflower Compact, Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

• Growth of representative government
• Reasons for exploration
• Quakers
• Virginia House of Burgesses

Which characteristics best describe the English political traditions that impacted self-government in the colonies?  

Groups:

(a) Magna Carta

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(b) Parliament

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(c) English Bill of Rights

• Promised certain rights to citizens

• Forbade the king from being all powerful

• Group of elected individuals that make laws for their country

Which of the following is NOT a trait of the First Great Awakening?

• Preachers like Jonathan Edwards became popular.
• People asked forgiveness for their sins to go to Heaven.
• It meant everyone had to wake up early in the morning to attend sunrise church service.
• All people are created equal in God’s eyes.

This excerpt describes an event that happened in the New England colonies.

How did the practice described in the excerpt influence government in the colonies?

• By limiting the authority of colonial legislatures

• By restricting landowners from voting in elections

• By replacing colonial laws with religious laws

• By encouraging the growth of representative government

This table shows information about Early America.

Why were the colonies listed in the table established?

• To expand the fur trade across North America

• To allow colonists to practice their religions freely

• To spread Catholicism to American Indians

• To supply England with rice and tobacco