Vocab 1
goods available at a given price at anytime
What is supply?
how many consumers desire the goods and will buy them
first colony to establish religious freedom
What is Rhode Island?
minister against taking land from Native Americans
Who is Roger Williams?
group of countries, states, or people who join for a common purpose
What is a confederacy?
making or passing of laws
What is legislation?
helped Philadelphia and other port cities grow
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
rules to keep enslaved workers under control
What are slave codes?
betrayal of one's country by giving help to an enemy
What is treason?
large farms with working slaves
What are plantations?
people skilled in a craft
What are artisans?
a system where people can start any business they want
What is a free enterprise?
boss of a plantation
What is an overseer?
a special promise between a a person and God
What is a covenant?
a religious group who believed that religion did not need churches or ministers
Who are the Quakers?
governor of the New England colonies
Who is John Winthrop?
a story of a person's life, written by that person
What is an autobiography?
started the Pennsylvania colony
Who is William Penn?
business of buying and selling people for profit (came from West Africa)
What is the slave trade?
this is the colony south of North Carolina in which they share a name
What is South Carolina?
this is the year in which Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence
What is 1776?
how old America is this year in 2026
What is 250 years old?
this is the term for what the story is mostly about
What is the main idea?
this is the term for the moral of lesson of a story
What is theme?
This week, as people prepare for the ice storm, the shelves at grocery stores are becoming empty. This is what is happening to supply and demand.
What is demand is going up and supply is going down?