Southern Colonies
The biggest cash crop of the south
Tobacco?
Originally founded New York
Holland ( New Amsterdam)
The religious group that came over for religious freedom
Puritans
The trade route where Raw Materials and slaves were traded between three continents
Trans-Atlantic Trade
Allowed self rule in the colonies from England
Salutary Neglect
The first permanent English Settlement in the New World
Virginia
The religion of William Penn the founder of Pennsylvania
Quaker
Due to poor climate conditions and geographic features of the land this encouraged the creation of
Small Family Farms
Sea voyage that carried Africans to North America
Middle Passage
Religious Revival during the 1730's and 1740's
The Great Awakening
The first European- Type legislative body and first representative legislative body in the New World
The House of Burgesses
Key characteristic of Philadelphia and New York that led to diversity of culture
Tolerance
An early bloody conflict between Native Americans and English Colonist in New England
King Philip's war
The theory that the Earth held limited supply of wealth in the form of natural resources
Mercantilism
Allowed male landowners over 17 to vote for 2 representatives to represent their settlement
House of Burgess
This system gave 50 acres of land to any settler who came to Virginia with an indentured servant
Headright System
Main crop that was grown in the Mid Atlantic colonies that was traded amongst the other colonies and Mother England
Wheat
A series of court hearings in Massachusetts where over 150 people were accused of being a witch and it killed at least 25 people
The Salem Witch Trials
What were slave communities rich with
Music, dance, basket weaving, and Pottery Making
Two Great Preachers of the Great Awakening
Jonathan Edwards & George Whitefield
A rebellious attack on Jamestown VA where landless landowners wanted harsher treatment of Native Americans and lead to end of indentured servants
Bacon's Rebellion
What is the nickname for Philadelphia
City of Brotherly Love
King Philip's Native American Name
Metacom
The country were the majority of enslaved Africans were forced to go to
Brazil
Preachers said that American society had become as corrupt as the English society as a result
As a result some people started wanting to cut ties with Britain