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16 Cards in this Set
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New England |
Settled by Puritans seeking freedom from religious persecution in Europe. |
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Puritans |
Formed a "covenant community" under the Mayflower Compact |
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Middle Atlantic |
Settled by English, Dutch, and German-speaking immigrants seeking religious freedom and economic opportunity |
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Southern Colonies |
Settled by people seeking economic opportunities |
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Jamestown |
First permanent settlement in Virginia, 1607 |
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Virginia House of Burgesses |
First elected assembly in the New World |
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Effects of colonization on Native Americans |
Natives lost their land and fell victim to disease |
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Effect of growth of agricultural economy |
Introduction of slavery |
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Economic Characteristics of New England Colonies |
Shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small-scale farming, eventually manufacturing |
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Economic Characteristics of Middle Colonies |
shipbuilding, small-scale farming, trading |
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Economic Characteristics of Southern Colonies |
large plantations, small-scale farming, hunting, trading |
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Social Characteristics of New England Colonies |
based on religious standing, intolerant of dissenters |
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Social Characteristics of Middle Colonies |
religious tolerance, develop a middle class |
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Social Characteristics of Southern Colonies |
dominated by landowners, close social ties with England |
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Middle Passage |
the journey taken by slaves from Africa to the Americas |
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Great Awakening |
religious movement in the mid-1700s that laid the social foundations for the American Revolution |
