Vocabulary
Crops that were sold for money are known as...
Cash crops
Georgia was setup for this group of people who owed money back in England
debtors
The most common job for someone in Colonial America would be to be a.....
Farmer
The belief that colonies should benefit the home country as an economic theory...
Mercantilism
What is the largest ocean on Earth?
Pacific
Someone who worked for a master to learn a trade or craft....
Apprentice
The belief that people are grouped into ranked races is known as....
Racism
Willing to accept beliefs that are different from your own is known as being...
Tolerant
Something valuable that is given in order to get someone to do something...
Bribe.
What country borders the United States to the north?
Canada
This social class was full of wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, successful lawyers and royal officials.
Gentry
A plant grown to make a valuable blue dye...
Indigo
A religious revival or movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s...
The Great Awakening
The Acts that regulated trade between England and its colonies in order to ensure that only England benefited from trade with its colonies...
Navigation acts
What imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
Equator
Living accommodations are known as this...
Quarters
The passage of slave-trading ships west across the Atlantic is known as....
The Middle Passage
A combination of English and West African languages known as spoken by enslaved individuals was known as....
Gullah
This protected the rights of individuals and gave anyone accused of a crime the right to a trial by jury...
English Bill of Rights (Bill of Rights also accepted)
4 and 1
Private schools run by women in their own homes...
Dame schools
A law provided religious freedom for all Christians in Maryland.
Act of Toleration
Which state set up the first public schools or schools supported by taxes....
The colonies followed this practice which made it so laws develop from past rulings of judges. "Like cases should be tried alike"
Common law
What imaginary line divides Earth into the Northern and Southern Hemispheres?
The Treaty of Versailles