Exploration and Colonization Review

• 1607

• Economic

  • Profit

  • Company

• Tobacco​

Virginia​

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Massachusetts

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• 1620

• Religious Freedom

  • Puritans

• Mayflower Compact

  • Social Contract​

• Puritans

• ​John Winthrop

• Religious Freedom

• Mayflower Compact​

Massachusetts

• Catholics

• Lord Baltimore

• Escape Religious Persecution​

Maryland

• ​Quakers

• William Penn

• Religious Freedom

• Abolitionists​

Pennsylvania

• Religious Toleration

• Roger Williams

• Anne Hutchinson​

Rhode Island

Religious Colonies

• Harsh Winter & Rocky Soil

• Swift Rivers

  • Fur Trapping

• ​Natural Harbors

  • Trading

  • Fishing/Whaling​

• Dense Forests​

  • Shipbuilding

  • Lumber​

New England Region

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• Hills

• Mild Climate

• Fertile Soil

  • Bread Basket

  • Grains

  • Livestock

• Dense Forests​

  • Shipbuilding

  • Lumber​

Mid-Atlantic Region

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• Warm climate

• Flat Land

• Fertile Soil

  • Cash Crops

    • Tobacco

    • Cotton

• Slavery

  • Transatlantic Slave Trade

  • Middle Passage​

Southern

Region

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• 1620

• Social Contract

  • Good for colony​

• Puritans​

Mayflower Compact

• Elected Legislatures

  • Representatives

• Assembly​

Virginia House of Burgesses

• Thomas Hooker

• 1st Constitution

  • Defines and Limits Government​

Fundamental Orders of Connecticut

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• 1215

• Limits King's power

  • provides power for the people​

Magna Carta

Self-Government