The New England Colonies
What was the main motivation of the Pilgrim settlers? What were they seeking?
Relgious freedom
Name the Middle Colonies
New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware
He wished to establish a colony to be a safe haven for Catholics to practice their faith freely.
Sir George Calvert
The upper class of society was known as
the gentry
Economic theory that states that a nation becomes strong by controlling its trade, and that colonies should benefit the mother country.
mercantilism
The mistreatment or punishment of certain people because of their beliefs.
persecution
(the Pilgrims fled persecution in England; initially they were called Separatists, for wanting to separate from the Church of England)
Name the cash crops raised in the Middle Colonies
wheat, barley, rye
This act provided religious freedom for all Christians in Maryland
Act of Toleration
People who agreed to work without wages for 4-7 years in exchange for someone paying their way to America.
indentured servant
Laws that regulated trade between England and its colonies in order to ensure that only England benefitted from trade with its colonies
The Navigation Acts
This agreement, signed by Pilgrims and non-Pilgrmims, pledged themselves to unite into a "civil body politic" and to make and abide by laws that ensured "the general Good of the Colony."
Mayflower Compact
Founder of Pennsylvania
Name his faith group
William Penn; Quaker
Name the four major crops of the Southern colonies
cotton, tobacco, rice, indigo
Culture that formed from a mix of European and African cultures
Gullah
Name of a set of three trade routes between New England and West Africa, West Africa and the Weest Indies, and the West Indies and New England.
The triangular trade
What holiday has its origin in the Piligrims setting aside a day of giving thanks to God for a good harvest?
Thanksgiving
Dutch official who surrendered New Amsterdam to the English
Peter Stuyvesant
He set up Georgia as a safe haven for debtors
James Oglethorpe
Religious revival of the 1730s and 1740s
the Great Awakening
the journey of slaves across the Atlantic, from West Africa to the West Indies, was known as
The Middle Passage
Name the founder of Rhode Island
Roger Williams
A colony under the direct control of the English king or queen
royal colony
These ethnic groups settled in the backcountry of the sourthern colonies
Scotch-Irish and Germans
Private schools for girls, run by women in their own homes.
dame schools
Under this system of law, laws develop from judges' past rulings
common law (also known as case law)