Colonies
This was the original name for New York.
What is New Amsterdam?
People who agreed to work under contract for 4 to 7 years in return for trip payment to the New World. When contract ended, workers gained freedom to move.
Who are Indentured Servants?
The South relied on this as their main source of income.
What is farming?
This is the upper house of Parliament.
What is the House of Lords?
This area smaller subsistence farms due to the rocky soil.
What is New England?
This man established the colony of Georgia.
Who is Oglethorpe?
These were large production Cash Crop farms that resembled European Feudalism. Instead of landlocked serfs, these farms had African slaves.
What are Plantations?
The trade route between American colonies, Africa, and Europe that included crops, manufactured goods, and slaves; all for massive profits.
What is the Middle Passage or the Triangle?
This document gave the British Parliament power taken from the King.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
This area's economy was based around farming and agriculture.
What is the Southern Colonies?
Bacon's Rebellion ended because of this event.
What is Bacon dying?
This group of religious settlers were some of the first to speak out against the practice of slavery.
Who are the Quakers?
This is the practice of farming only what you need to survive.
What is Subsistence Farming?
This document was signed by the King stating that he was not above the law.
What is Magna Carta?
This area had an economy based around farming and industry.
Who were the Middle Colonies?
This colony was established by Quakers with the idea that all people were created equal.
What is Pennsylvania?
This is the type of charter granted to a colony that was ran by a king.
What is a Royal charter?
This colonial region had the most diverse economy. Included populated cities, busy trade harbors, fur trade, merchants, fisherman, lumber, and small farms.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This is the lower house of Parliament.
What is the House of Commons?
This area had the larger population and the bigger cities.
What are the Middle Colonies?
This imaginary line was established to quell border disputes.
What is the Mason Dixon Line?
This group of religious settlers wanted to “separate” from the Church of England.
Who are the Pilgrims?
This is the practice of exporting more than you import.
What is Mercantilism?
This was the king who was forced to say he was not above the law.
Who was King John?
This area relied on Shipbuilding and fishing. There were also no large businesses.
What is New England?