Colonial People
People too poor to pay for trip to American and had to work four to seven years until their debt was paid
What is an indentured servant
The one job activity New Englanders did not do that the other two colony areas did.
What is farming?
First written constitution in America
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
A crop mainly produced for sale and profit
What is a cash crop
Urged people to question accepted political authority
What is the Enlightenment?
People who oppose official or commonly held views.
Who were dissenters?
Wheat and Cash Crops
What are the crops of the middle colonies?
Who appointed governors to the colonies?
Who is king George III?
Wheat, rice, tobacco are all examples of what?
What is an example of a cash crop
Caused by colonists moving west into French territory.
What is the French Indian War
The place Pilgrims founded Plymouth.
What is Massachusetts?
Tobacco and rice
What are the Southern cash crops?
Power to tax and power to decide how money is spent
What is the role of the Assemblies?
This was a common job in New England colonies and is still common in New England states today.
What is the fishing industry
Cause colonists to question traditional religious authority
What is the Great Awakening?
Forced people to leave their colony who did not worship as they did.
Who are the Puritans?
a large estate
What is a plantation?
These people were king appointed over each colony and took orders from the king.
What are governors?
Using animal fur to make money
What is fur trading
required colonists to buy stamps and place them on many documents such as legal papers, newspapers, etc.
What was the Stamp Act?
The reason Pilgrims left England
What is freedom of religion?
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This regional colony had fishermen.
What is New England?
Why did the colonists resent governors?
What is they had fewer rights than people living in England?
This was used to influence decisions of representatives from the South.
What is the wealth of plantation owners?
An Act that gave Parliament the right to make decisions for the colonists.
What was the Declaratory Act?