Vocabulary
Vocabulary 2
The New York Colony
Starting the Colonies
100
The place from which rivers from the higher land of the mountains flow to the lower lands near the coast and often form waterfalls.
What is a fall line?
100
A crop that people grow and sell to earn money.
What is a plantation?
100
One way New York colonists earned a living.
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100
A few characteristics of the Middle Colonies.
What is hills, deep wide rivers.
200
The power of the poeple to make laws for themselves.
What is self-government?
200
A stsyem in which the government controlled the economy of its colonies in order to grow rich from trade.
What is mercantilism?
200
A person who agreed to work for someone who would pay for their trip to America.
What is an indentured servant?
200
A few characteristics of New England.
What is few rivers, rocky land.
300
An agreement.
What is a compact?
300
A person who leaves one country to live in another country.
What is an immigrant?
300
Workers who were not paid at all.
What is enslaved African Americans, slaves.
300
Characteristics of the Southern Colonies.
What is low land, many rivers, bays, wetlands. Good for farming.
400
The way in which people from a different area use the recourses around them.
What is economy?
400
A person who works with a master to learn how to do a job.
What is an apprentice?
400
Leaders of the government were who?
What is white, landowning men?
400
2 regions good for farming.
What is Middle and Southern colonies.
500
A person who owned and controlled all the land in the colony.
What is a proprietor?
500
A person who buys ans sells goods.
What is a merchant?
500
Thhis group of people faced challenges to have rights in the colony.
What is women, Native Americans, African americans (free), slaves?
500
1 reason colnists came to settle in America.
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