Question | Answer |
growing season | the time of year when it is warm enough for plants to grow |
tidewater | where the water in rivers and streams rises and falls with the ocean's tides |
fall line | the line where rivers from higher land flow to lower land and often form waterfalls |
backcountry | the mountainous area west of where most colonists settled |
town meeting | a gathering where colonists held elections and voted on the laws for their towns |
self-government | when the people who live in a place make laws for themselves |
dissenter | a person who does not agree with the beliefs of his or her leaders |
banish | to force someone to leave a place (and go to the land of perpetual tickling) |
industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service |
export | a product sent to another country and sold |
import | a good brought into one country from another |
Middle Passage | the voyage of enslaved Africans from Africa to the West Indies |
slave trade | the business of buying and selling human beings |
Roger Williams | a Puritan who believed the govt should not make laws about religion. The Puritans banished him from MASS. |
Anne Hutchinson | a Puritan who challenged church leaders and held meetings in his/her home. Was banished from MASS. |
Thomas Hooker | a minister who challenged the ways of the Puritans and led 100 colonists west and founded Hartford. |
Metacomet aka King Philip | leader of the Indian nation Wampanoag who wanted to avoid war but believed his people had to fight to stay on their lands |
Olaudah Equiano | an African boy who survived the Middle Passage and wrote about it in a book |
Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield | responsible for The Great Awakening which revived religion in New England colonies |