Vocab
People who move from place to place
What is a Nomad
Boat ride across the Atlantic
Middle Passage
The crop that saved Jamestown
Tobacco
Cotton, rice, & tobacco
What are cash crops from the Southern Colonies
Direct Democracy
Limited King's power
What was the Magna Carta
Exchanging goods, ideas, & diseases, from Africa, Europe, and the Americas
Columbian Exchange
What did gold represent of the 3 G's?
Economic opportunities/wealth
Known as the bread basket of the colonies
What is Pennsylvania
Hands off approach allowing British colonies to be semi-independent
Salutatory Act
England' first settlement in North America
What is Jamestown
Allowed colonizers to navigate north and south by water in the middle of the new world
What is the Mississippi River
Early workers at Jamestown were?
Indentured Servants
Name 2 Elements of the Enlightenment
A group called the Puritan Religious Beliefs spread throughout the new colonies.
What was the Great Awakening
Examples include; harbors, trees, rivers, fertile soil
What are natural resources
First law protecting religious freedom
Maryland Toleration Act
The French were profiting from what in the Ohio River Valley
Fur Trade
What was the first act which protected religious freedom?
Maryland Toleration Act
Cause; The Appalachian Mountains were a natural barrier
Effect-limited colonial westward expansion
People who exchange service for freedoms
What is an Indentured Servant
First legislative body in the colonies
House of Burgesses
Established a set of agreements for everyone to follow prior to arriving at Plymouth Rock
What was the Mayflower Compact?
What country owned/controlled the southwest of the US?
Spain
1619
The year slaves were first brought from Africa and sold in the colonies