Exploration/Colonization STAAR Study Guide

Pilgrims landed in Plymouth and wrote the ______ and came for ________

What are the reasons for the development of Jamestown and Plymouth?

- Transatlantic Slave Trade, plantations, cash crops, fertile soil led to diff. economy than North.

- claimed Florida, Texas, California & built missions.

The colonial towns near the Atlantic Ocean were mainly_________

The Virginia House of Burgesses was formed in ____ and served as a _____.

- claimed land in New World to profit from fur trading.

Jamestown was saved by which of the following crops?

- Roger Williams started religious tolerant R.I.

Which ocean borders the 13 colonies?

- distance from Britain,Mayflower Compac(social contract)Virginia House of Burgesses, Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

- a place for Catholics to live peacefully.

Why can the Southern Colonies plant so many crops?

- 1st anti-slavery group, lived in Pennsylvania

- fishing, lumbering, shipbuilding, harbors.

Which of the following colonies was known as the "Bread Basket?"

- wealth, religion, expand empires, claim territory.

- British controlled colonial trade, angered colonists.