Vocabulary
a person who moves to another country from his or her country homeland
immigrants
The Southern colonies main source of economy was ____________.
Agriculture
a member of a Puritan Separatists sect that left England in the early 1600s to settle in the Americas.
pilgrims
director general who led the New Netherland colony beginning in 1647
Peter Stuyvesant
Most government decisions were made at _______________ in the New England colonies
town meetings
policy in which Britain interfered very little in colonial affairs
statutory neglect
Jamestown
_____________ wanted to purify, or reform the Church of England.
puritans
the Society of Friends, who made up of one of the largest religious groups in New Jersey
Quakers
philosopher who thought that people had natural rights
movement during the 1700s that spread the idea that reason and logic could improve society.
Enlightenment
The _______________ were for people that pay their own way to the colonies but would get 50 acres of land and along another 50 per additional family member.
headright system
a document written by Pilgrims establishing them selves as a political society and setting guidelines for self-government
Mayflower Compact
__________ was the main source of economy during the 1600s
Fur Trading
The ____________ affected the colonial government by people demanding political equality for all.
Great Awakening
Act passed in 1689 that reduced the powers of the English monarch and gave Parliament more power
English Bill of Rights
the three major cash crops in these colonies
indigo, rice, tobacco
who is the one that helped the pilgrims establish relations with other Indians. Who is known as Squanto.
Tisquantum
a Quaker leader who founded the Pennsylvania colony.
William Penn
Native American leader who led a rebellion in the Ohio Valley in 1763
Pontiac
this bill made it a crime to resist the religious rights of Christians.
toleration act of 1649
a slave who recorded his experiences as a slave in the southern colonies
Olaudah Equiano
Thomas Hooker wanted to leave ___________ and started a colony in ______________ with a more democratic government
Massachusetts, Connecticut
Farmers grew large amounts of staple crops which were
wheat, oats, and barley
The Triangular Trade is a system in which goods and slaves were traded among the ____________, ____________, __________.
America's, Britain, and Africa