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13 Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Colony | A piece of land that is owned by another country. |
| slave | a person who is owned by another person and is forced to work. |
| Religious Freedom | The right of all individuals to follow their own religious beliefs |
| Political Freedom | the right to participate in the political process and be involved in politics-not be controlled by others |
| Economic Opportunity | The opportunity to make money |
| Reasons for England to colonize North America | *religious freedom *political freedom *expand their Empire *economic opportunity |
| Name the New England Colonies | New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut |
| Name the Middle Colonies: | New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania, Delaware |
| Name the Southern Colonies: | Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Maryland and Georgia |
| Pilgrims | Religious group that fled England because of they wanted Religious freedom. They were persecuted because of their different religious beliefs. |
| Plymouth | settlement location of the Pilgrims in 1620 |
| Mayflower Compact | 1620, 1st document to establish self-government in the colonies |
| Jamestown | The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in 1607 |
| Puritans | A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. |
| . Salutary Neglect | An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies |
| . French and Indian War | British defeat the French, gain control of french Canadian lands, tax the colonies more to pay for the war. |
| Royal Colony | A colony controlled directly by the English king |
| . Proprietary Colony | A colony run by individuals or groups to whom land was granted |
| Cash Crop | farm crop raised to be sold for money ex: Tobacco |
| . Indentured Servants | Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
| Plantation | Large farms that used slave labor to grow cash crops [Southern Colonies] The plantation usually was located on a river, so goods could be transported easily |
| . Triangular Trade | Transferring of slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between West Africa, American colonies and the European colonial powers |
| What was the importance of the Mayflower Compact? | Mayflower Compact was the first attempt at democratic government in the U.S. They agreed to work together to make laws. |
| What was the relationship between the Native Americans and the Colonists? [overall] | Sometimes the relationship was friendly [traded], at other times hostile [wars]. The steady flood of settlers from Europe caused an invasion on Native Am |
| . Purpose for having colonies: | England believed their colonies in North America were meant to be a resource to help England make money. |
| charter | A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area |
| Roanoke | Established in 1587. Called the Lost Colony. It was financed by Sir Walter Raleigh, and its leader in the New World was John White. All the settlers disappeared, and historians still don't know what became of them |
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