Section 1
The migration to Massachusetts Bay during the 1630's was led by a religious group known as the ________.
What are the Puritans?
A colony under the direct control of the English crown.
What is a Royal Colony?
The belief that one race is superior to another.
What is Racism?
Goods sent to markets outside a country.
What are Exports?
Publishing a statement which might unjustly damage a persons reputation
What is Libel?
Male church members also elected representatives to an assembly.
What is a General Court?
Owners of huge estates.
What are Patroons?
Nathaniel Bacon organized angry men and women and they raided a Native American village and they burned down the capital of Jamestown.
What is Bacons Rebellion
Goods brought into a country.
What are Imports?
Farmers who worked their own land, skilled craftworkers & some tradespeople.
What is Middle Class?
A willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.
What is Religious Tolerance?
The king gave land to one or more people in return for a yearly payment.
What is a Proprietary Colony?
Virginia, Maryland, and North Carolina became major _________ growing areas.
What is Tobacco?
Nation became strong by keeping strict control over its trade.
What is Mercantilism?
Southern colonies were too far apart to have a local school, so they payed for private teachers.
What are Tutors?
Settlers wrote plan of government in 1639.
What is the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?
Crops sold at market for money.
What are Cash Crops?
Treated enslaved Africans not as humans but as property.
What are Slave Codes?
Colonists won more rights in 1688.
What is the Glorious Revolution.
Lowest social class. Hired farmhands, slaves. Signed contracts to work without wages for a period of four to seven years for anyone who would pay their ocean passage to the Americas.
What are Indentured Servants?
Settlers discussed and voted on many issues.
What are Town Meetings?
Large numbers of German-speaking Protestants.
What are the Pennsylvania Dutch?
The assembly passed the ___ __ __________ - religious freedom for all Christians
What is the Act of Toleration?
English Parliament passed regulated trade between England and its colonies.
What are the Navigation Acts?
Reason and scientific methods could be applied to the study of society.
What is Enlightenment?