Key Terms
An economic system in which Colonies exist to benefit the mother country through trade and resource control.
Mercantilism
Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved people and denied them basic rights.
Slave Codes
Mercantilism and The Role of the Colonies:
- True or False
- England viewed the colonies as a source of raw materials and markets for finished goods
True
New England Colonies
- Religion
Puritan
Crops grown for profit, such as tobacco,rice,and indigo, mainly in the Southern Colonies.
Cash Crop
A series of English laws that restricted colonial trade, requiring that certain goods be shipped only to England or other English colonies.
Navigation Acts
Triangular Trade:
- Manufactured goods from England to _______
- Enslaved Africans to _______
- Raw Materials to _______
- Manufactured goods from England to Africa
- Enslaved Africans to America
- Raw Materials to England
New England Colonies:
- Economy
- Colonies
Economy: Ship building, Fishing, Small Farms
Colonies: Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, New Hampshire
A person who agreed to work for a certain number of years in exchange for passage to the new world.
Indentured Servants
A policy where England did not strictly enforce trade laws on the colonies as long as they remained loyal and profitable.
Salutary Neglect
The Navigation Acts:
- True or False
- In order to do colonial trade you would have to use a English Ship to go through the English Ports
True
Middle Colonies:
- Religion
Diverse (Quakers or Catholics)
Middle Passage
The brutal sea journey that enslaved Africans were forced to take across the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas.
Triangular Trade
A three-part trade route between Europe, Africa, and the Americas that exchanged goods, enslaved people, and raw materials.
Salutary Neglect:
- When England ignored minor violations of trade laws this allowed colonial governments and economies to ______.
Fill In:
Grow Independently Grow Together
Grow Independently
Middle Colonies:
- Economy
- Colonies
Economy: Trade, Farming
Colonies: New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
Colonial Assembly
A form of self government were elected colonists made local laws.
Subsitence Farming
Farming in which only enough food is grown to feed the farmer’s family; common in New England.
Growth and Self Government:
- Distance from England led colonies to govern themselves
Please give an example of a Self Government Colony!
Mayflower Compact
New England Town Meetings
Virginia House of Burgesses
Southern Colonies:
- Religion
- Economy
- Colonies
Religion: Anglican
Economy: Plantation system, slavery, cash crops
Colonies: Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia