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colonies vocab
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Act of Toleration | provided religious freedom for all Christians in Maryland |
| Bacon's Rebellion | rebellion in Virginia because the Governor would not declare war on the Indians |
| Cash Crop | farm crop raised to be sold for money |
| Royal Colony | colony directly under control of King or queen |
| Region | area that has similar unifying characteristics |
| General Court | representative assembly in the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| emigrate | to leave ones country to settle elsewhere |
| King Phillip's War | conflict between English settlers and the Indians in Mass. |
| Great Migration | between 1629 and 1640 more than 20,000 English people moved to New England |
| toleration | willingness to let others have their own beliefs |
| Massachusetts Bay Colony | first Puritan Colony |
| theocracy | a government of churchmen who used religion as a basis for ruling |
| subsistence farming | growing just enough food to eat |
| Quakers | protestant reformers who settled in Pennsylvania,believed that all people were created equal |
| Frame of Government | representative government of Pennsylvania |
| patroon | rich landowner in Pennsylvania |
| diverse | different |