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American Colonies
U.S. History 1- Vocab 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| cash crop | that a country’s ultimate goal was selfsufficiencyand that all countries were in a competition to acquire the most goldand silver. |
| middle passage | onegrown primarily for sale rather than for the farmer’s own use. |
| Puritan | group of early English settlers who came to America to escape religious persecution |
| Mercantilism | This term referred to athree-way trading process |
| triangular trade | because it was considered the middle leg of the transatlantictrade triangle |
| Massachuttes bay colonies | The initial parties stopped first at Salem, but soon established a permanent settlement on the Shawmut Peninsula of Massachusetts Bay (later to be called Boston). |