Southern Colonies
The group of investors that formed the joint stock company that sponsored the Jamestown colony
Virginia Company of London/Joint Stock Company
Southern colonies economy rely on?
Cash Crops
Showed that Puritans were willing to kill other colonists due to their fear of the devil (Paranoia)
Salem Witch Trials
Created by William Penn as a haven for Quakers and had a diverse population
Pennsylvania
Section of the triangular trade route that carried slaves from Africa to Americas
Middle Passage
The Southern Colonies depended on this for economic gain (Before cotton was important)
Tobacco
a large farm usually in the southern colonies often growing cash crops through the use of slaves
Plantation
What did the Magna Carta Establish?
All Must follow the law even kings or leaders
A Quaker that founded Pennsylvania to establish a place where his people and others could live in peace and be free from persecution.
William Penn
Contracted workers who worked in the colonies
Indentured Servants
The first elected colonial legislature, Sign of democracy and self-government
House of Burgesses
Tre or False: Southern Plantations grow cash crops
True
Pilgrim agreement for self-government and majority rule
Mayflower Compact
Includes many different people from different backgrounds and beliefs.
MIddle COlonies
British laws were not really enforced as long as the colonies remained loyal and traded with England.
Salutary Neglect
Unlike small subsistence farms, plantations were created to grow cash crops for sale on the market
The plantation system
Helped to increase democracy within New England colonies
Town Meetings
first written constitution in America
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
the movement of black people being taken from Africa to travel across the Atlantic ocean to North America
Trans Atlantic Slave Trade
The French came to the new world to set up what?
Trading posts
What colonies were split in two?
North and South Carolina
Safe haven for religious dissenters that were kicked out of Massachusetts.
Rhode Island
MIddle colonies NIckname
Bread Basket
Trade system between the colonies and England that benefitted England more
Mercantilism
Laws that governed trade between England and its colonies. Colonists were required to ship certain products exclusively to England. These acts made colonists very angry because they were forbidden from trading with other countries.
Navigation Acts
The first permanent English settlement in North America
Jamestown
England Chose to Ignore the colonies illegal trading, This is called?
Salutary Neglect
Planted mostly what kind of crops to make what
Wheat/Barley
Revival of religious beliefs that was experienced by all of the colonies
Great Awakening
the trading of goods and slaves between North America, Europe, and Africa
Triangle Trade