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What is the term for the undeveloped area at the edge of a settled area?
the frontier
What percentage of the colonists were farmers?
90%
What type of labor did planters rely on?
slave labor
What view on the land did the Native Americans and the colonists disagree on?
sharing the land
Who translated the first Bible to be printed in America?
John Eliot
Why did settlers usually move along the rivers?
to make it easier to move and send things back and forth
What were subsistence farmers?
those who made just enough for their own family to survive
What did the colonies begin to feel because of all the trade?
very important
What happened even the colonists paid for the land?
the Native Americans were driven away and less access to resources
What tribe was blamed for the death of 2 Englishmen in 1637?
The Pequot Tribe
What is the term for people coming from many nations to form a new nation?
Melting Pot
What was the first important money crop in the south?
tobacco
Who were the 3 groups involved in the Triangular Trade?
America, Europe, and Africa
Native Americans felt they were becoming too _____________ on the colonists.
dependent
How many Native Americans died in King Philip's War?
3000
What is the name of the 700 mile road between Lancaster, PA and Salisbury, NC?
Great Wagon Road
What crop was raised in tidewater?
rice
What are 2 things that North America sent to Europe?
whale oil, rum, lumber, furs, rice, indigo, tobacco, fish
What 3 things did both groups do to each other?
captured, held for ransom, and killed
What was the result of King Philip's War for the Native Americans?
there were too few of them, so they were pushed father out west
Who helped open up the lands of Ohio, Kentucky, and Tennessee?
Daniel Boone
What crop grew off season from the rest?
indigo
What are the types of manufactured goods that England sent to America?
tools, clothing, wealthy luxuries
Many colonists, sought to do what to the Native Americans instead of fighting them?
convert them to Christianity
What 5 colonies did the Pequot War take place in?
Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, and Maine