Category 1: Colonial Regions & Economy
This region was known as the most diverse "melting pot" of settlers.
the Middle Colonies
An undeveloped area at the edge of the settled colonial area.
frontier
The product traded directly from England to America in the Triangular Trade.
manufactured goods
The local army formed by citizens in a colony.
militia
Places where Christian Indians learned about the Bible, European law, and manners.
praying towns
The most common food crop grown in colonial America.
corn
Farmers who could raise just enough crops and livestock to feed their own families.
subsistence farmers
This item was shipped from America to England.
tobacco
Free adult white male property owners who had the right to vote for representatives
freeholders
Metacomet, son of Massasoit, was known to the New England colonists by this name.
King Philip
These large farms in the South grew cash crops using slave labor
plantations
The mountain range that served as the western boundary of the British colonies for over 100 years.
Appalachian Mountains
Traded from the Caribbean to America in the Triangular Trade network.
sugar
The basic unit of local government in the New England colonies.
township
The 1637 war between Massachusetts colonists and local Indians where an Indian fort was ambushed and survivors sold into slavery.
Pequot War
This group of colonies was known as the "bread colonies" because they grew crops like corn, oats, barley, and wheat.
Middle Colonies
The covered wagons travelers used to carry their belongings along wilderness trails.
Conestoga wagons
The network of trade routes connecting Africa, the Americas, and Europe.
Triangular Trade
The tax that citizens in some colonies had to pay before they were allowed to vote.
poll tax
The 1676 conflict in Virginia between frontier settlers and the colonial governor.
Bacon's Rebellion
The main cash crop in tidewater areas of the southern colonies, grown in fields where tides raised and lowered water levels.
rice
The main north-south pathway from Pennsylvania to Georgia used by settlers.
Great Wagon Road
The wave of European immigrants who came to America in the early years of colonization.
Great Migration
The term for the colonial legislature's control over government financing and paying the governor's salary.
"power of the purse"
Officials appointed by governors who held trials, settled disputes, collected taxes, and recorded deeds.
justices of the peace (or judges)