Vocabulary I
A settlement started by people who leave their own country to live in another land
What is colony?
To work together.
What is cooperate?
Explorer that named New England.
What is John Smith?
A gathering held to make decisions on important issues.
What is town meeting?
Importance of people participating in their local governments.
IR-understanding of civic responsibility and how local government affects people and how they live.
To work at only one job and do it well.
What is specialize?
A point of land reaching out into the ocean.
What is cape?
Plymouth Colony's location.
What is Massachusetts?
A place where ships dock safely.
What is harbor?
Effect of no industrial economy.
IR--What is more handcrafts and less larger cities.
Huge, slow moving mass of ice.
What is glacier?
A closed-off area of water used to raise fish.
What is fish farm?
How the Native Americans helped the Pilgrims survive.
How landforms and natural resources affect the way people live in the countryside.
What is the type of jobs and products they make?
A town meeting form of government would not work in a large city.
IR--What is too many issues and large population.
A public park used for picnics and festivals but was a pasture for animals.
What is common?
Where most factories and machines manufacture goods.
What is industrial economy?
Kind of soil that covers much of New England.
What is rocky soil?
Trees help colonists earn a living. (List 2)
What is logging, collecting sap, and raising fruit.
New England's earliest settlements were built near the coast.
IR-What is to use the ocean's resources?
What is quarry?
A factory in which cotton and wool are woven into cloth.
What is textile mill?
How Newfane's economy changed overtime.
What is from agriculture to manufacturing?
What is 1774?
Mastermind behind the first textile mill in the United States.
What is Samuel Slater/Slater Mill.