Early English Settlements
a form of government in which the ruler is a king or queen
What is a monarchy?
groups of businesses that provide certain goods or services
What are industries?
A public sale where people who were enslaved were sold to the highest bidder
What is an auction?
the government building where lawmakers meet
What is the capitol?
a public announcement is one of these
What is a proclamation?
A form of government where citizens elect the leaders to make decisions
What is a democracy?
a large farm in the Southern Colonies where indentured servants and enslaved people did most of the work.
What is a plantation?
the exchange of goods and enslaved people between Europe, the Americas, and West Africa
What is the triangular trade?
A royal colony is governed by this person
What is a king or a queen?
this means to undo a law
What is to repeal?
People who settled in Roanoke and Jamestown
Who are the colonists?
Plantations specialized in producing these
What are cash crops?
a person who was in charge of the work of enslaved people and who could punish them for disobeying him.
What is an overseer?
A draft of an idea that may become a law
What is a bill?
this part of the British government passed acts
What is Parliament?
The first permanent English colony in America
What is Jamestown?
Someone who agreed to work for an employer for a set period of time in order to pay off a debt was called this
What is an indentured servant?
he voyage of ships carrying people who had been enslaved across the Atlantic Ocean.
What is the Middle Passage?
a person who works at a job that requires manual or artistic skill.
What is a craftsman?
Many colonists decided to refuse to buy tea because of the tax which is called this
What is boycott?
All the settlers in this colony disappeared
What is Roanoke?
the Quakers mistreated in England because of this
What is they practiced a different religion from most English people?
the places where were most people enslaved in the West Indies and British North America were forced to work
What are sugar and tobacco plantations?
dame schools in Williamsburg were places where this happened
What were girls learned to read and write?
This was an outcome of the French and Indian War
What was that The British went deeply into debt?