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Chapter 3
American Colonies take shape
Term | Definition |
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Indentured Servant | Poor immigrants who works for another in order to pay for his passage to America |
Scotch-Irish | These immigrants to America often settled on the frontier |
Germans | These immigrants often settled in Pennsylvania |
Middle Passage | The route between Africa and America taken by enslaved Africans |
Magna Carta | English document that limited the power of the King |
Parliament | The legislative body in England |
The Dominion of New England | King James II's attempt to impose his rule on the Massachussetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New York and New Jersey |
Salutary Neglect | The English policy of allowing the colonies to govern themselves |
John Peter Zenger | This trial affirmed freedom of the press in America |
Mercantilism | This economic way of thinking defined wealth as gold received by exporting goods. |
Navigation Acts | Laws that required the English colonies to trade with England |
Enlightenment | An intellectual movement of the 1700s that emphasized using reason to solve problems |
Great Awakening | A religious movement in the English colonies that brought a renewed interest in Christianity |
John Locke | English philosopher who identified the role of government is to protect our God given rights |
Ben Franklin | An American scholar/thinker/businessman who embodied the Enlightenment in America |
Fish | An important export from New England |
Wheat | An important export from the Middle Colonies |
Tobacco | An important export from the South |
Cash Crops | Crops that are grown for the sole purpose of selling |
Women and Children | These were some of the immigrants who moved to New England in the 1600s |
Dame schools | A school run by an older woman |
Harvard | The oldest college in the US |
Princeton | The oldest college in New Jersey |