Regions
The colonies with warm weather, large plantations, and cash crops like tobacco and rice
What are the Southern Colonies?
A good brought into a country or colony.
What is an import?
The country that controls and sends settlers to live in a colony. It is the “home” country that rules over the colony and often benefits from its resources and trade.
What is a mother country?
Accepting people who have different religious beliefs.
What is Religious Tolerance?
A young person who learned a trade or craft from a skilled worker.
What is an apprentice?
The colonies known for good farmland, growing grains, and having diverse people and religions
What are the Middle Colonies?
A good sent out of a country or colony to be sold elsewhere.
What is an export?
A group of people elected to make laws for a colony.
What is an assembly?
A religious group that wanted to reform the Church of England and settled in Massachusetts.
Who are the Puritans?
Someone who is forced to work for another person and cannot choose to leave or be paid for their labor, often serves for life.
What is an enslaved person?
The northern colonies were known for rocky soil, cold weather, and trading and fishing.
What are the New England Colonies?
A trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that included goods and enslaved people.
What is triangular trade?
When a group of people or a country makes its own rules and decisions instead of being controlled by another government.
What is self-rule?
A group who left England to find religious freedom, settling at Plymouth in 1620.
Who are the Pilgrims?
A person who agreed to work for someone for a set number of years (usually 4–7) in exchange for passage to the New World, food, and shelter.
What is an indentured servant?
Frontier areas away from the coast where settlers built small farms and lived more independently.
What is the backcountry?
A crop grown to sell for money rather than for personal use (like tobacco or cotton).
What is a cash crop?
A settlement ruled by another country
What is a colony?
A religious group that believed in peace and equality; many lived in Pennsylvania.
Who are the quakers?
A young person who learned a trade or craft from a skilled worker.
What is an apprentice?
A large farm that grows crops to sell, often using enslaved labor.
What is a plantation?
The idea that colonies exist to make their home country rich and powerful.
What is mercantilism?
A system where people elect others to make laws and decisions for them.
What is a representative government?
The terrible sea journey that enslaved Africans were forced to take to the Americas.
What is the middle passage.