Vocab
a material or substance found in nature that can be used to sustain a society or exploited for economic gain, such as minerals, water, or living things.
natural resource
The African diaspora involved the forcible removal of people from this place to this other place (say both places in order.)
Africa to the Americas
A person who disagrees with official policy.
Dissenter
Georgia was different from other colonies because:
1. it formed a military buffer with Spanish Florida
2. it was made as a colony for debtors to get a new start
People and their descendants classified as good with no human rights.
Chattel slavery
This system of debt servitude was the most common type in Africa before 1500.
Pawnship
King Philip's War
New England didn't have large scale agriculture for this reason.
Their winters were too long and cold, and their soil was poor quality.
Doctrine:
a principle or set of beliefs accepted by a group.
This event was when landless colonists of all races attacked Native American settlements before burning down Jamestown.
Bacon's Rebellion
The colonies of Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire all formed for this reason:
They dissented against/wanted to separate from the Puritans in Massachusetts.
Stronger than an alliance, weaker than a federal system.
confederacy
Proprietor:
a person who owns a colony
The Powhatan attacked the English colonists for this reason:
English encroachment of their land
The diversity of the Middle Colonies was due to these 3 factors:
1. founded originally by the Dutch
2. Quakers were tolerant of other faiths in Pennsylvania
3. Penn kept his treaties with Native Americans while he lived
Big cities in the Middle Colonies like New York and Philadelphia were important centers of this economic activity.
Trade and shipping.