Concise Review: Ace Your Test in 10 Minutes - 13 Colonies

📚 The video covers 50 key points about colonial America for a test.

🏴 The first English colony attempt failed, but Jamestown became a successful settlement.

🌾 Tobacco became a successful cash crop in the Virginia Colony.

🗽 The Mayflower Compact was created to make the Plymouth Colony legal and establish self-government.

🌾 The Plymouth Colony received help from Squanto, a local Native American, and celebrated a Thanksgiving festival.

⛪️ The Massachusetts Bay Colony was known for religious freedom for Puritans and had a General Court for citizen participation.

🌎 The Great Migration saw thousands of Puritans leave Europe for the English colonies in the Caribbean and New England.

🗺️ The 13 original colonies were Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia.

🗺️ The New England colonies (Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island) had rich forests, rocky soils, and good harbors for trade. Roger Williams founded Rhode Island after being banished from Massachusetts for preaching religious tolerance.

⚔️ Growing conflict between colonists and Native Americans led to King Philip's War, where both sides experienced casualties and opened up the region to colonial expansion.

🌾 The middle colonies (New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware) were known as the 'breadbasket colonies' for their successful wheat farming and diverse population.

📝 William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania for persecuted Quakers and other groups who wanted equality.

🗺️ The Mason-Dixon line was created to settle the boundary dispute between Maryland and Pennsylvania and is now the symbolic border between the North and South.

⚔️ Bacon's Rebellion was an uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon against Indians and the government in Virginia.

🌾 South Carolina was known for its fertile farmland and became an important shipping city in the colonial South.

💙 Eliza Lucas Pickney developed indigo, a highly demanded blue dye crop, in the Carolinas.

💰 James Oglethorpe established a colony in Georgia to provide a fresh start for debtors and poor people.

📚 Mercantilism theory emphasized the importance of a nation's wealth.

🏴 Navigation Acts restricted colonists to use English ships and sell raw materials only to England.

🏰 Three types of English colonies: charter colonies, proprietary colonies, and royal colonies.

📚 Religious revivals in the 1720s and 40s led to more religious diversity.

🗞️ Peter Zenger, a critical newspaper publisher, faced arrest but represented early freedom of the press.

🤝 The Iroquois Confederacy showed the power of diverse groups working together for the common good.