Trade
traded from Africa to the Caribbean or America
slaves
undeveloped area at the edge of the settled area
frontier
The local army of a colony
militia
The colonial legislature, or elected assembly, had this
the power of the purse
In New England the basic unit of government
township
traded from the Caribbean to America
sugar
The route Daniel Boone helped clear through the Appalachian Mountains
the Wilderness
The conflict in Virginia between frontier settlers and the colonial government
Bacon's Rebellion
a common tax that colonists had to pay before the voted
poll tax
Places where Indians who became Christians could learn about the Bible and European law, manners, and town life
praying towns
traded from America to England
tobacco
The main north-south pathway from Pennsylvania to Georgia
The Great Wagon Road
a three-year conflict (1675–78) between the Indians
and New England colonists in which at least six hundred colonists and two thousand Indians were
killed, including Metacomet
King Phillip's War
governors appointed judges who were also called this
Justice of the Peace
Farmers who could raise just enough crops and livestock to provide for their families
subsistence farmers
traded from England to America
manufactured goods
formed the western boundary of the British colonies for over one hundred years
The Appalachian Mountains
a 1637 war between the Massachusetts Bay colonists and the
neighboring Indians in which the colonists ambushed an Indian fort, killed many Indians, and
captured and sold the remaining Indians as slaves.
The Pequot War
Free adult white male property owners who could vote for representatives
freeholders
The most common food crop in America
corn
The network of routes between Africa, the Americas, and Europe w
dangers the frontiers faced
Frontier settlers faced skirmishes with Indians and clashes between ethnic groups.
Major conflicts that occurred between settlers and Indians
Settlers were living on lands the Indians had inhabited for many years. Indians believed in tribal ownership of land, while Europeans believed in private property and permanent ownership. Most colonists did not pay the Indians for the land on which they settled, and Indians were being pushed off land that they depended on for food. Indians realized the colonists had more powerful weapons. Also, as Indians became more dependent on trade with the colonists, Indian leaders became less influential to their tribes.
common occupations in the New England colonies
Many New Englanders became merchants, fishermen, whalers, and shipbuilders.
the differences between slavery in the southern colonies, the middle colonies, and New England.
The South’s economy was based on cash crops. The more labor a farmer had the more land he could plant and harvest. In the middle and New England colonies, the harvest seasons were shorter and mostly food crops were grown, so slave labor was less profitable. Slaves in the northern colonies were used as servants. New England shipbuilders and slave traders profited greatly from the slave trade even if they did not own slaves.