Colonies
The first attempt of an English settlement in the New World. Sometimes known as the “Lost Colony.”
What is the Roanoke Colony
People who agreed to work under contract for 4 to 7 years in return for trip payment to the New World. When contract ended, workers gained freedom to move.
Who are Indentured Servants?
This was the nickname for the farming of wheat, corn, and grain for profit that is generally associated with the Middle Colonies
What is the Bread Basket?
This is the type of government where elected officials make laws for its people. Practiced in the South because of rural areas.
What is Representative Democracy?
Colonists having no say in Parliament.
What is taxation without representation?
Two economies that NC and SC had in the beginning?
What are small farms and plantations?
These were large production Cash Crop farms that resembled European Feudalism. Instead of landlocked serfs, these farms had African slaves.
What are Plantations?
The trade route between American colonies, Africa, and Europe that included crops, manufactured goods, and slaves; all for massive profits.
What is Triangular Trade?
New England used direct democracy which was also known as ....
What are town meetings?
These colonies had rocky soil, short growing seasons and non-navigable rivers.
What are the NE colonies?
The first successful English settlement. John Smith is credited with saving the colony and later later it became a tobacco boom-town
What is Jamestown?
New Hampshire was located in this region.
What is the New England Colonies?
Farming for profit that included tobacco, rice, indigo, and slave labor. Generally associated with Southern Colonies.
What are cash crops?
A haven for Catholics founded by Calvert.
What is Maryland?
British soldiers killed 8 colonists and wounded many others outside the British Customs House in Boston
What is the Boston Massacre?
Colony established by Quakers with the idea that all people were created equal.
What is Pennsylvania?
Refusal to buy English goods
What is boycott?
Trade that favors a country over the colonies and places trading restrictions on those colonies
What is mercantilism?
England's policy of relaxed rule over the colonies.
What is Salutary Neglect?
The two largest cities and seaports in Colonial America.
What are NYC and Philly?
This Colony was set up by two groups of religious settlers, the Puritans and the Pilgrims
What is Massachusetts? (Plymouth also acceptable)
Tar, pitch, turpentine and lumber
What are naval stores?
Cash crop that made Jamestown profitable.
What is tobacco?
These laws shut down Boston Harbor and limited the colonist freedom in Massachusetts.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
This placed a tax on all legal documents.
What is the Stamp Act?