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Charter | An official document giving a person permission to settle in an area |
Colony | A settlement far away from a country that rules it |
cash crop | A crop that is grown to be sold for profit |
indentured servants | A person from England who signed a contract to serve a master in exchange to be brought to the us and food,clothing,and shelter once they arrived |
Separatists | pilgrims that wanted to separate from the church of England |
pilgrims | A person who travels to a place as a act of religious devotion |
Centuries | 100 years |
triangular trade | Trade rouge over the Atlantic ocean |
Plantations | colonial farmers grew crops like rice, and cotton |
Imports | products brought into the colonies from England |
Exports | to send goods to other countries for sale or use |
Assembly | A lawmaking body |
Legislation | A law passed by a lawmaking body |
Where was the mayflower scheduled to land, where did it actually land | Virginia It landed in Cape Cod,MA |
what was the name of the agreement signed by the pilgrims for the first plan of government | mayflower , Compact |
How did pilgrims avoid freezing on the mayflower | They huddled on the Mayflower |
Why was life for the pilgrims difficult once they arrived on Plymouth | They did not have food |
What did Europe give to Africa | Guns,textiles, manufactured goods |
What did Africa give to the Americans | Slaves and Sugar |
What did the Americans give to Europe | lumber, cod, and furs |
Who is at fault for the slave trade | Greedy Europeans, New world plantations owners who wanted cheap labor, and African kings who desired manufactured good to Europe |
New England Colonies | Never New Hampshire Make Massachusetts Cynthia Connecticut Run Rhode island |
Middle Colonies | New New jersey Pennies Pennsylvania New New York Dimes Delaware |
Southern Colonies | M Maryland V Virginia N North Carolina S South Carolina G Georgia |
Were is Roanoke island located | North Carolina |
Why is Roanoke island so mysterious | When John white came back from is journey the island was deserted and nobody knows what and happened to them and where did they go |
What cash crop was valuable in Jamestown | Corn and tobacco |
Where is Jamestown located | Virginia |
What was the role of Pocahontas and John Smith | Pocahontas saved John Smith from getting killed and John Smith was the leader of Jamestown, the first colony |
Southern colonies | Plantation owners relied heavily on slavery. |
Middle colonies | The Dutch claimed important territory in New York the English eventually took the area. New York was once called New Amsterdam. |
Southern colonies | Plantation owners also had influence in the government,laws, and rules of the colonies.proprietary colonies are owned by someone ,rather than a government . |
Southern colonies | Georgia was the last of the 13 colonies |
Middle colonies | The Patroon system gave huge plots of land to wealthy settlers that would bring large groups of people to the new world. It was an unsuccessful program. |
Middle colonies | NJ was formed because NY was so big it needed to be split. |
Middle colonies | Pennsylvania was a colony founded by the Quakers and practiced religious tolerance.It was known as the holy experiment. |
New England colonies-Massachusetts -What did Puritans and Pilgrims want | To practice their religion freely |
New England colonies-Connecticut-What is the difference between Massachusetts and Connecticut | The government ways of ruling |
New England colonies-Rhode Island-What did Roger Williams believe about church and government | He believed the church had to much power and he thought they had to be separated |
New England colonies-Rhode Island-What is toleration | Willingness to let others practice their own belief |
New England colonies-Rhode Island-What two ideas came from Rhode Island the we put in our constitution | Freedom of religion and separation of church and state. |