Places
Jamestown
What was the fFirst successful settlement in America
Indentured Servants
Who are people who worked for a landowner in exchange for the landowner paying for their trip
Quakers
Who settled in Pennsylvania, religious group that did not recognize class differences, promoted equality of the sexes
Staple or Cash Crops
Crops that are in large demand and provide the bulk of a region’s income
Limited Government
What is government based on the rule of law
Middle Colonies
What are New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
Gentry
Who were the wealthy upper class
Puritans
Who wanted to establish a community built solely on "pure biblical teaching" rather than Anglican traditions
Salutary Neglect
Program during the 1600's when the English government basically let the colonists govern themselves
Common Law
What is based on tradition or past court decisions, rather than a written statement or law
New England Colonies
What are Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Connecticut
Slavery
What was a system in which people are "owned" like property
Public Education
Puritan practice so that everyone should be able to read the Bible
Colonial Women
Who were considered to be the second-class citizens
Natural Rights
What is based on Life, Liberty, Property
Southern Colonies
What are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia
Headright System
Who were people promised 50 acres of land per "head" or family member to those who would settle in the colony
Salem Witch Trials
What was one of the darkest episodes in American history
Plantation Systems
What were huge farms owned by wealthy landowners who raised cash crops
Social Contract Theory
What is a contract between a government and its citizens born with freedom and rights for the who for good of society agree to give up certain freedoms
House of Burgesses
What was the first limited self-government in British colonies
Colonial Legislatures
Who determined how taxes would be levied
Region where religion was important
Who were the New England Colonies
Magna Carta
The document in 1517 that granted nobles various legal rights and prevented the king from imposing taxes without the consent of the people
Representatives Government
What is government where people elect their own officials and have a voice