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Chapter 5 GR 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| charter | official paper from the king |
| dissent | disagreement that might hurt their society |
| expel | force someone to leave |
| consent | agreement |
| sedition | speaking in ways that caused others to work against the government |
| frontier | the lands beyond the areas already settled by colonists |
| fact | a statement that can be proven or supported by evidence |
| opinion | a statement that tells what a person feels or believes |
| common | at the center of each town |
| town meeting | when townspeople all gather at least once a year |
| free-market | system of trade between farmers and merchants |
| industry | all the businesses that make one kind of product or offer one kind of service |
| naval stores | the products used to build ships |
| exports | goods leaving a country |
| imports | goods brought into the country |
| Triangular Trade Routes | routes that connected to England, the English Colonies, and Africa |
| Middle Passage | enslaved Africans were forced to travel across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa to the West Indies |
| Metacomet | leader of the Wampanoag who tried to unite Native Americans against the colonists in New England |
| Thomas Hooker | founded the settlement of Hartford, which became part of the Connecticut Colony |
| Roger Williams | leader who was expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony and who later founded Providence, which became part of the Rhode Island Co lony |
| John Winthrop | led the second group of Puritans to New England in search of religious freedom and was an early leader of the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| Anne Hutchinson | led followers to an island near Providence after being expelled from the Massachusetts Bay Colony |
| In what ways were Rhode Island and Massachusetts Bay Colony different. | 1. Rhode Island colony had religious freedom, but only Puritans could worship in Massachusetts Bay Colony. 2. Rhode Island Colony was founded after Massachusetts Bay Colony. 3. Rhode Island is farther south than Massachusetts. |
| How did the early slave trade affect both Africans and English colonists? | 1. People from central and western Africa were captured and taken away on ships to be sold as slaves in the English colonies. 2. Africans suffered terribly and many of them died. 3. Over time, some colonists formed groups to try to end slavery. |
| What were some of the responsibilities of colonial children in New England? Give examples of what girls and boys were each expected to do. | Girls - prepared food, made clothing, soap, candles, and brushes. Boys- worked in the fields, hunted, made tools, and raised animals. All kids had to go to school and read the bible. |
| How did people in the New England Colonies belong to a free-market economic system? | Colonists were free to choose the goods they bought and made and the services they offered. They were free to compete in business and to set whatever prices they choose for goods and services. |