Agriculture
what is sugarcane
a type of plant European colonizers introduced as a cash crop in America
What are the Navigation Acts?
laws that required colonies to only trade with England
Who is John Locke
What is the House of Burgesses
The first representative government
what is religious freedom
when pilgrams came to america seeking freedom.
What are examples of cash crops?
sugar cane, rice, cotton,soybeans, and cooffe ect..
trades connecting Africa, Europe, and Americas.
what are the three basic rights john locke said everybody is born with
life liberty and property.
What does no taxation without representation mean
Its just a slogan that is angry at British taxes
What is the Massachusetts Bay Colony
a colony founded by Puritans
What are plantations?
large farm-like areas that colonists planted lots of things in..
What is smuggling
What is the social contract
ideal government power that comes from the people
What are the Appalachian Mountains?
Mountains that stopped colonists from settling west of these mountains
what is pennslyvania
William Penn found the colony and it was a safe place for Quakers
What is the Columbian Exchange
A global spread of crops like potatoes ect.
What is a merchant?
A colonist who sold goods or services
what are natural rights
A colonist who fought the challenge that was unfair because of Enlightenment ideas
What is the first Continental Congress
When representatives went to a meeting in 1174 to respond to a British rule
Maryland toleration meaning?
The law in Maryland granted freedom of warship to all Christians
Treaty of paris?
A war in 1763 that gave Britain new lands in North America.
why is the navigation acts important
They were basically the only ships that colonial trades could be carried out with
What is the right of revoultuon
the change or abolish a government that abuses power.
what are the intorable acts
laws passed by britan
What is Rhode island
people who disagreed with puritain leaders in Massachussetess often led to form this more tolerant colony