Colonial Government
To attract settlers to the proprietary colony of Maryland, Cecilius Calvert passed this act to affirm religious freedom for all Christians.
What is the Maryland Toleration Act?
Raising just enough to feed their families, but little more.
What is subsistence farming?
What are the states in the middle colonies?
New York, Delaware, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
Who was Eliza Lucas Pinckney?
She successfully grew Indigo, which became a cash crop in the South.
A British leader who helped England win the French and Indian war, was good at planning and choosing military leaders, people like him because he cared about the colonies and wanted the government to be fair.
Who was William Pitt?
A person or small group of persons to whom the king granted territory.
What is a proprietor?
A farm that had the resources to get along without outside help.
What is a self sufficient farm?
What was life like for the blacks in the middle colonies?
Since the farms were smaller and required less work, the slaves mostly worked in houses as servants and a few worked in trades in the towns.
What were the cash crops in the South?
Tobacco, rice, indigo, and cotton.
The triangle trade was a trading system between Europe, Africa, and the Americas. From Europe to Africa, guns, cloth, metal goods, and rum. From Africa to the Americas, they traded enslaved Africans. From the Americas to Africa, they traded sugar, molasses, tobacco, and cotton.
What is the triangular trade and what did they trade?
A refuge for Catholics and a money-making real-estate venture.
What were the reasons Maryland was established?
What are the New England colony states?
Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island.
Why were the backcountry farmers so self-sufficient?
They were isolated geographically, so they had to be. Also, a lot of them had been indentured servants and they resented the colonial government.
What was Bacon's rebellion?
It was an uprising led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy land owner who sympathized with backcountry farmers, who felt that the colonial government had not done enough to protect them from local Indians. Even though the rebellion fell apart, friction between planters and farmers remained.
The better class, those above the ordinary degree, and those of mean/low condition. ARISTOCRACY/ROYALS/LANDOWNERS
MERCHANTS, SHOPKEEPERS, ARTISANS
CITY WORKERS, TENANT
FARMERS, AGRICULTURAL WORKERS
THE MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL COURT BECAME SO OUTRAGED THEY PASSED A LAE SPECIFYING HOW MUCH PROPERTY A FAMILY HAD TO OWN IN ORDER TO WEAR ANY GOLD OR SILVER LACE, OR GOLD AND SILVER BUTTONS, OR ANY BONE LACE ABOVE TWO SCHILLINGS PER YARD, OR SILK, HOODS OR SCARFS.
What are the classes and what were they called? What made the highest class mad?
More protection from the English military and more political power for the colonists.
What was the benefit of royal colonies over proprietary colonies for the colonists and the king.
How did church congregations set up New England towns?
The elders distributed property lots to families and there was communal forest land.
What were the two largest groups of non-English settlers in the middle colonies, and why did they choose to come to America?
Pennsylvania-Dutch, and the Scotch-Irish. They both came for religious freedom and more opportunity and independence
What is a slave code?
Laws to regulate relations between slaves and their owners, to control slaves, and prevent uprisings.
What's the difference between royal and proprietary colonies?
A royal colony is governed directly by the English crown and the colonists had less control over laws. In a proprietary colony, it's owned or governed by one or more people, and the colonists had more freedom to do things their own way.
A 1688 rebellion in England that ousted king James II.
What and when was the Glorious Revolution?
Describe the social system in New England.
Even though the rich didn't like it, there was more social mobility for everyone except slaves.
In what area did most free blacks live? Did they have the same freedoms as whites?
Middle colonies and New England. No, but they were treated better than they were in the South.
List three reasons for the demand of slave labor.
Cash crops required more labor, slaves were more profitable than indentured servants, and slaves couldn't run away easily because the color of their skin didn't blend in to the whites.
What role did religion play in the colonies?
Religion shaped why the colonies were founded, influenced laws and education, varied in tolerance between colonies, and sometimes caused conflicts.