Vocabulary
A person who owned enslaved people
What is an enslaver?
This region had plantations and warm weather
What are the Southern Colonies?
This document was an early plan for self-government
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas
What is the Triangular Trade?
These types of crops were grown on plantations
What are cash crops?
A person who supervised and punished enslaved workers
What is an overseer?
This region had rocky soil and cold weather
What is New England?
Colonial leaders in Williamsburg met to discuss business and politics here
What is the Raleigh Tavern?
The journey enslaved Africans took across the ocean
What is the Middle Passage?
The main reason Georgia was founded
What is to help debtors?
A public sale where people bid on goods or people
What is an auction?
This region grew cash crops like tobacco and cotton
What are the Southern Colonies?
This was the building used by lawmakers to meet
What is the Capitol building?
Europeans traded these resources to Africa
What are guns and goods?
Girls often learn reading and sewing here
What are dame schools?
A plan or idea for a law
What is a bill?
This region had good soil and diverse people
What are the Middle Colonies?
This group made laws in colonial Virginia
What is the House of Burgesses?
Name one way enslaved people resisted
What is breaking tools/pretending not to understand/acting sick?
A person who works to pay off a debt for a set time
What is an indentured servant?
A skilled worker who makes things by hand
What is a craftsman?
Colonies in this region focused on shipbuilding and fishing
What is New England?
This is the reason Virginia was considered democratic
What are the elected representatives who made laws?
Enslaved people forced to do these jobs in the colonies
What is field work, cooking, and skilled labor?
Boys went for higher education here
What is the College of William and Mary?