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Vocabulary 1 Europea
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Economy | the way a community obtains the goods it needs to survive , can be money-based barter, etc. |
| Smuggling | illegally bring goods into a country without paying taxes |
| Proprietary colony | colony that was owned by a company or individual |
| backcountry | area west of the Appalachian Mountains |
| mercantilism | colonies were created to make the "mother country" rich,colonists, were employees and were only allowed to trade with the mother country |
| Appalachian Mountains | Dividing line between the settled area of the colonies and the back country |
| Royal colony | colony that belonged to the king who collected the profits its made |
| charter | permission from the government to create a colony included its boundaries |
| indentured servant | person who signs a contract to work for someone in the New World in exchange for passage and a new life |
| joint-stock company | a business arrangement in which investors put in money to create and run colonies with the hope they will earn a profit |
| dissident | person who speaks against a government or its policies |
| agriculture | the planting of crops for food and to sell |
| persecution | to punish or harass someone because of their beliefs |
| tolerance | to be accepting of a person's differences |
| Triangular Trades | the routes taken by ships as they traded goods between England and the colonies |
| middle passage | the part of the triangular Trade routes taken by slaves as the left Africa to go to the New World |
| Pilgrims[separatists] | settlers that left England because of religious persecution settled in Plymouth Massachusetts in 1620 |
| Mayflower Compact | Agreement between Separatists and strangers on the mayflower to work together to survive, important for self-government and majority rule, written in 1620 |
| Puritans | English dissidents who settled New England held strict religious beliefs that controlled all parts of daily life were not tolerant of other religoins |
| Fundamental Orders Of Connecticut | First written constitution in American created a formal written government |
| Roger Williams | former Puritan minister that was exiled from Massachusetts established Rhode Island |
| Anne Hutchinson | Puritan who was exiled from Massachusetts after a trial for heresy for preaching without permission fled to Rhode Island |
| Thomas Hooker | Leader of the Puritan congregation the established Connecticut |
| Subsistence Farming | growing only enough food to feed a family |
| Navigation Acts | Laws that said colonies were only allowed to trade with Great Britain |
| William Bradford | Separatist leader of the Plymouth colony |
| Great migration | The movement of at least 20000 Puritans to New England for religious freedom |
| William Penn | Quaker who founded Pennsylvania as a place for tolerance |
| Quakers | religious group that settled mainly in Pennsylvania and created a colony that was tolerant to Native Americans and other religions |
| cash crops | large amounts of crops that allow a farmer to sell them |
| Jamestown Virginia | first permanent colony in North American settled in 1607 by investors of the Virginia Company of London |
| John Smith | Leader of the Jamestown colony He that does not work shall not eat |
| House Of Burgesses | colonial government in Virginia that allowed colonists to choose representatives to speak for them |
| James Oglethorpe | Founder of Georgia created it as a refuge for debtors and as protection from the Spanish in Florida |
| indigo | plantation crop whose flowers were used to make a deep blue dye |
| slavery | using humans to do labor without pay |
| Toleration Act of 1649 | Maryland's law that was the first to allow religious toleration, this one protected the religious practices of Catholics |
| plantation | a large farm that grows a single crop to sell used slaves as a source of labor |
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