Vocabulary
Define import.
Items being brought into a country.
Define expel.
To permanently remove.
What was done with surplus goods?
Traded or sold.
Prepared food, made clothing, soap and candles.
Define export.
Items leaving a country.
Define frontier.
What countries were part of the triangular trade route?
England, English Colonies, and Africa.
What was the responsibility of boys in New England?
Define industry.
A business that makes one product.
Define common.
The area in the middle of town.
What ocean was crossed during the triangular trade route?
Atlantic Ocean.
What was the responsibility of children (both boy and girl)?
Define charter.
An official paper in which certain rights are given by a government to a person, group or business.
Define free-market.
In a free market sellers are able to choose what they make or buy and can also set their own prices.
What is the middle passage?
The journey millions of enslaved Africans were forced to travel to get across the Atlantic Ocean from Africa.
Why did people settle in the Connecticut river valley?
It had fertile land to farm.
Define dissent and consent.
Dissent- disagreement
Consent- agreement
Define sedition.
Speaking in ways to make others speak against the government.
How did the early slave trade affect Africans and English Colonists?
Africans- captured, focused to cross the middle passage and sold to colonists. Were treated badly and often died of illness during their travels.
Colonists- Had free workers, some started groups to end slavery.
What did the colonists do to have their own representative government?
They elected their own leaders.