Vocabulary
A person who goes on a religious journey
What is a pilgrim?
In 1620
When was Plymouth founded?
1664
What year was New Jersey split off from New York?
1607
What year was Jamestown founded?
Fertile soil and good climate
What helped the middle colonies grow crops and raise livestock?
Legislative representative
What is a burgess?
Long winters and rocky soils supported
What resources supported subsistence farming?
Founded in 1680
When was Pennsylvania founded?
1634
When was Maryland founded?
The Magna Carta
What is the document that was signed in 1215 that protected the English people from unjust treatment and punishment?
To disagree
What does it mean to dissent?
Founded in 1630
What year was Massachusetts Bay founded?
Woodlands, wheat, cash crops, livestock, and shipping
What resources were mostly important in the middle colonies?
Farming
What was the main economic activity in the southern Colonies?
What did the colonists believe the government should respect?
Willingness to allow or overlook
What is tolerance?
type of towns that developed on rivers
What is inland towns?
1704
Southern colonists built their plantations near rivers
Where did the southern colonists build their plantations?
Punished, beat, and starved
What laws did the colonies pass that allowed enslaved Africans to have happen to them?
Produced enough to feed their families
What is subsistence?
Developed as centers on whaling, fishing, shipping, trade, and shipbuilding.
What did coastal towns develop as?
Cash crops
What could be sold for profit to buyers in the colonies and overseas?
Southern planters expand their farming
What is exploiting the work of enslaved Africans?
Grain and saw lumber
What did the mills use to grind?