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American Colonies
Vocab of the American Colonies
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Economic Venture | A plan to make money |
| Separatists | A group of people who want to be separate from the Church of England to practice their own religion freely |
| Religious Persecution | Being hurt or teassed for your ways of worshiping God |
| Quakers | A religious group who is peace loving |
| interference | something getting in the way |
| debtor | a person who owes money |
| social life | living together and enjoying life with other people |
| terrain | look of the land |
| civic life | how citizens make their laws, vote, take part in government |
| diverse | varied, different |
| Piedmont | a geographic area at the foot of the mountains; it literally means foot of the mountains |
| predominately | mostly |
| raw materials | natural resources that are not yet made into anything such as cut trees or coal that has been mined |
| political | having to do with the govenerment |
| specialization | focusing on one or a few products |
| interdependence | two or more people depending on each other for goods and services |