1st 6wks Symbols Review

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U.S. Physical Features

Pacific Ocean Atlantic Ocean

Rocky Mountains Appalachian Mountains

Mississippi River

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Reasons for European Colonization

Gold Economic

God Social

Glory Political

Jamestown

1607

1st Permanent English Colony in America

Economic Reason (Tobacco)

House of Burgesses

1st Representative Government in America

Self –government

Mayflower Compact

Self-government

Pilgrims

Religious Freedom

Puritans

Massachusetts Bay Colony

New England Way (very religious / strict)

Salem Witchcraft Trials

King Phillip’s War

New England Colonies

(NH, MA, CT, RI)

Rocky Soil

Long, Cold Winters

Fishing

Whaling

Triangular Trade

Slaves

New England profited

Middle Colonies

(NY, PA, NJ, DE)

Breadbasket Colonies

Religious Freedom

Diversity

Quakers

William Penn

Pennsylvania

Peace

Southern Colonies

(MD, VA, NC, SC, GA)

Cash Crops (Corn / Tobacco)

Slavery

Plantations

Slavery increases in the South because:

- longer growing seasons

- best soil

New England- Fish/Northern colonies

Middle Colonies - Wheat/Bread Basket

Southern Colonies- Tobacco/Hand

Great Awakening

Jonathan Edwards

Religious Movement

LIFELIBERTYPROPERTY

Enlightenment

Intellectual Movement-Reason and Science

Benjamin Franklin

John Locke – Natural Rights:

(right to life, liberty, & property)

Magna Carta

English document that limited the King’s power

Trial by Jury

A – R – EE – Y – EG – E – EA – C – HT – E – EE – S - S

Bill of

English Bill of Rights

Spells out the rights of Englishmen

Gave Parliament (England’s Representatives) more power

Mercantilism

Mother Country (England) benefits from trading with the 13 Colonies

England trades manufactured goods in return for raw materials ($)

French & Indian War

England (British) / Colonies

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France

Indians help both sides (mostly the French)

France lost most of their land in North America to the British (England).

The Proclamation of 1763 forbid the colonists to go west past the Appalachian Mountains.

England taxed the colonies to help pay for the French & Indian War.

Forming an American Identity

Colonies come together as one.

They begin thinking of themselves as “Americans”, instead of “Englishmen”.