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1607

Virginia House
of
Burgesses

Mayflower
Compact

Navigation
Acts

Parliament

Fundamental
Orders of
Connecticut

1620

Mercantilism

Slavery and
Agricult
ure

Reasons for
English
Colonization

Representative
Government

First Great
Awakening

Cash Crops

Religious
Tolerance

Albany Plan
of
Union

Secondary
Source

Primary
Source

Triangular
Trade

Magna
Carta

English Bill
of Rights

The
Enlighten
ment

French and
Indian War

Proclamation
of 1763

Plantations

Hurt
Colonial
Econom
ies

Middle
Colonies
Economic
Activities

Southern
Colonies
Economic
Activities

New England
Colonies
Economic
Activities

Colonization

Date of 1st
permanent
English
settlement
at
Jamestown
English Law
Making Body

Southern
Colonies
became
dependent
on these 2
Grown to make
money or
sold for a
profit
First hand
informatio
n:
eyewitness
account of
Intellectual
movement
in the
1700s;
power of
reason
Reason colonies
opposed
mercantilis
m

First representative
assembly in the
Colonies

Example of Self
Government

British law
enforcing
Mercantilism

First Written
Constitution in the
Colonies

Plymouth
Founded

Economic plan in
which colonies
provide raw materials
to mother county and
serve as a market for
finished goods

Economic, Social,
and Religious

Developed in the
colonies because
people wanted a
say in the
government

People became more


religious.
Called for
toleration
and religious
freedom

Accepting or
permitting others
religious beliefs

First proposal to
unite the Colonies.
By Ben Franklin.
Join or Die

Information
heard from other
sources; not an
eyewitness account

Shipping and trade


routes between the
colonies & Africa &
West Indies

Reduced the
Protected trial by
power of the king
jury for English
and gave more to
citizens
Parliament

Banned colonial
Fought over the
settlement west of
Ohio River Valley.
the Appalachians;
Colonies had to pay
to prevent conflict
taxes as a result.
with Indians
Breadbasket; some
farming and some
industry

Long growing
season, fertile
soil, plantations,
cash crops, slaves

Colonization

Large farms
producing cash
crops with the
help of slaves;
found in the
South
Based on
industry, fishing
& shipping; cold
climate, poor soil

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