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The most common food crop in America was
Corn
The colonial legislature, or elected assembly, had the "power of the ____ " because it paid the governor's salary and financed government activities
purse
A common tax in some colonies was a(n)___ tax that citizens had to pay before they could vote.
Property
The main crop in the tidewater areas of the southern colonies was ___ since the tides could be used to raise and lower the water levels in the fields .
rice
In New England the basic unit of government was the
township
The local army of a colony was called the _________.
militia
Free adult white male property owners who could vote for representatives were called________________.
Freeholders
The name of the war in 1637 between Massachusetts Bay colonists and neighboring Indians in which the colonists ambushed an Indian fort, killed many Indians, and captured and sold the remaining Indians as slaves
Pequot
Governors appointed judges, also called _____________, who held trials, settled disputes, collected taxes, granted licenses, recorded property deeds, and served other public needs
Justices of the peace
The conflict in Virginia between frontier settlers and the colonial government was called_____________
Bacon's Rebellion
The ______had the power of the purse for each colony
Legislature
The _______ controlled the militia
Governor
People who raise just enough crops and livestock
Subsistence farmers
Towns established to teach converted Indians about the Bible and European customs were know as __________
praying towns
Merchants in the ______ colonies were best known for the large profit
New England
The ____________ transported slaves and goods between Africa, the Caribbean or American colonies, and Europe
Triangular trade
One reason for the mission work among the Indians was to make them more _________
European
Who translated the Bible in the Algonquian language was first Bible printed in America
John Eliot
A popular mode of transportation to the frontier was the __________wagon
Conestoga
middle colonies
The son of Massasoit was Metacomet, who was also known
King Philip
The vast majority of slaves brought to the New World were sent to the ____________
South American/Caribbean
The wave of immigrants that came from Europe to America in the early years of colonization is called the _______________
Great Migration
Large farms in the South that grew cash crops often with slave labor were
Plantations
An undeveloped area at the edge of the settled area is called
Frontier