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13 colonies vocab BR
BRMS 7 Yellow Vocab Chapter 3
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cash crop | Surplus of crops that gets sold for money at the market (surplus is what is left over to be sold to other countries) |
| diversity | Having a variety |
| indigo | A plant used to made blue dye; it grew in the South |
| mercantilism | A belief that colonies exist to benefit the mother country. |
| plantation | A large farm with many workers on which rice and tobacco were grown |
| racism | A belief that one race is superior to another |
| region | A distinct area of land; ex. the 13 colonies were divided into three of these |
| toleration | A willingness to let others practice their own beliefs; acceptance of different opinions |
| backcountry | An area of land along the eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains |
| Jamestown | A settlement founded in Virginia in 1607; First permanent English settlement in North America; first successful settlement in the 13 colonies |
| Middle Colonies | New York, Pennsylvania,New Jersey,Delaware |
| New Netherland | A Dutch colony that later became New York |
| New England colonies | New Hampshire,Massachusetts,Connecticut,Rhode Island |
| Salem | A town in Massachusetts where there were witchcraft trials and chaos |
| Southern Colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| Act of Toleration | A Maryland law that forbade religious persecution (discrimination) |
| charter | A written contract giving the right to establish a colony |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | A document that has been called the first written constitution on America. |
| House of Burgesses | The Virginia assembly (government) which was the first representative assembly in American colonies. |
| Mayflower Compact | A document that helped set up the practice of self government in the New World in Plymouth, Massachusetts. |
| proprietary colony | A colony governed by a single owner, or proprietor |
| royal colony | Colony ruled by the King’s appointed officials |
| debtor | A person who owed money; many settled in Georgia |
| indentured servant | A person who worked for a set time without getting paid in exchange for a free passage to America |
| investor | A person who puts money into a project to earn a profit |
| patroon | A person who owns a huge estate in New Netherlands; a person rewarded with a large grant for bringing 50 settlers to New Netherland. |
| Pilgrims | A separatist (wanting to separate) group that traveled to America to gain religious freedom. They were on the Mayflower and landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts in 1620 |
| Puritans | English dissenters (person who disagrees with the church) who wanted to reform the Church of England; John Winthrop and his followers were a part of this religious group |
| Quakers | Protestant dissenters (reformers) who thought all people were equal in God’s sight; women could preach and they refused to serve in the army. Many settled in Pennsylvania with William Penn |
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