Enslaved Africans came to the Americas as part of a three-part voyage
What is the triangular trade
Religious Persecution
What is a Push Factor
Wheat was a staple crop
What are the Middle Colonies
The first representative body in colonial America.
What is the House of Burgesses
Belonged to the Crown
What are Royal Colonies
Were guaranteed freedom after a set number of years.
What are Indentured Servants
What is a Pull Factor
Farmed cash crops
What are the Southern Colonies
Sought to reform the Anglican Church and were the third wave of settlers.
What are Puritans
Belonged to powerful individuals or companies
What are Proprietary Colonies
Forced maritime migration of over 12 million African people.
What is the Transatlantic Slave Trade
Religious Freedom
Most ethnically and culturally diverse.
What are the Middle Colonies
They were separatist who began their own churches and were the second wave of settlers.
What are Pilgrims
Policy in the earlies 1700s that allowed the colonies virtual self-rule as long as Great Britain profited economically.
What is Salutary Neglect
Shippers carried the enslaved Africans across the Atlantic to the American colonies
What is the Middle Passage
Not enough land
What is a Push Factor
A greater degree of economic equality.
What are the New England Colonies
This movement helped prepare the ground for a political transformation.
What is the Great Awakening
Stated that only English ships with English sailors could trade with English colonies.
What are The Navigation Acts
Amount of Africans who did not survive the Middle Passage.
What is 10%
Stagnant Economy
What is a Push Factors
Mostly poor young simple men.
What are the Southern Colonies
As a consequence, the colony’s leaders reduced the taxes paid by the farmers and improved their access to frontier land.
What is Bacon's Rebellion
This policy encouraged monarchs to minimize imports from rival empires and to drive those rivals out of colonial markets.
What is Mercantilism