Warm-Up Day 6: Colonization

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

• American Revolution Era

• Middle colonies

• Quakers
• Reasons for exploration

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

Americans fought and formed their own country

• American Revolution Era

• Middle colonies

• Quakers
• Reasons for exploration

Wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory

• Growth of representative government
• Reasons for exploration
• 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

• Forbid the king from being all powerful

• Promised certain rights to citizens

• 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.

Which sentence best completes this diagram?

• The Puritans allowed women to participate in government.
• The Puritans refused to obey the appointed governor.
• The Puritans outlawed slavery in Massachusetts.
• The Puritans developed a form of representative self-government.