Colonization Unit Review

Who settled the Southern Colonies

• Pilgrims and Puritans

• Dutch, English, Quakers

• England wanted to make money from its colonies trade (mercantilism)

• English

Who settled the Middle Colonies

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• "Purify" the Church of England

• English

• Dutch, English, Quakers

Great Awakening

• tolerance (religious and of different groups), against slavery, equality for men & women

• "Purify" the Church of England

• movement reviving religion in the colonies

• in ALL colonial regions, but mostly the South

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• England wanted to make money from its colonies trade (mercantilism)

• England's "hands-off" policy toward the colonies during the early 1700s

• Pilgrims and Puritans

proportion of colonists on farms

• Religious differences slowed the growth of public education, each religious group decided education

• 9/10

• 1/20

• private tutors or the wealthy hired a teacher for several families

Who settled New England

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• Pilgrims and Puritans

• Dutch, English, Quakers

• England wanted to make money from its colonies trade (mercantilism)

products in Triangular Trade

• public schools, all children should be able to read

• Diverse agriculture, trade, artisans

• Plantation agriculture with slavery

• rum, iron, slaves, sugar, molasses

purpose of Navigation Acts

• England wanted to make money from its colonies trade (mercantilism)

• English

• Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• Pilgrims and Puritans

Quaker policies

• Colonies becoming used to acting independently and governing themselves

• tolerance (religious and of different groups), against slavery, equality for men & women

• the rugged stretch of land near the Appalachian Mountains, west of the colonies

• the journey taken by slave ships from West Africa to the Americas to work on plantations

Why did Pilgrims/Puritans leave England?

• Religious differences slowed the growth of public education, each religious group decided education individual worth, equality, right to challenge authority

• religious freedom, escape religious persecution