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What was the Great Migration?
Large wave of immigrants from Europe to America during America's early years.
What is a frontier?
An undeveloped area at the edge of the settled areas; each colonial region had this.
What is a militia?
The local army of a colony
What were subsistence farmers?
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People who could raise just enough crops and livestock to provide for their families.
What were plantations?
Plantations were large farms that were used by southern colonists to grow and export tobacco, rice, and indigo (i.e., high demand crops).
What was the tidewater?
The South's wide coastal plain that was low land along coastal rivers and inlets which gave the southern colonies plenty of flat farmland.
What was the triangular trade?
Trade routes that formed a triangle on the map which carried slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between west Africa, the Caribbean or American colonies, and Europe.
Who was John Eliot?
A puritan minister who learned the language of the Algonquin Indians in Massachusetts and translated the Bible into their language.
What were praying towns?
They were towns that were devoted to Indians who became Christians to teach them about the Bible, European laws, manners, and town life.
What was the Pequot War?
Native American war between the Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Pequot Indians which arose after colonists blamed the murder of some Englishmen on the Pequots.
What was King Philip's War?
War between Metacomet and New England colonists from 1675-78 because Metacomet was opposed to English efforts to convert Indians to Christianity, and because his brother had just died after being released from English arrest.
What was Bacon's Rebellion?
Nathaniel Bacon did not think the governor was doing enough to protect those who lived on the frontier in Virginia, so he gathered and led a group of colonists to attack the Indians by which Virginia's governor, William Berkeley, declared Bacon a rebel.
Why were Conestoga wagons used?
They were used to carry their belongings. The bottom was curved to keep its contents from rolling outside the wagon, and the cover protected the wagon's interior from weather. At night, settlers typically slept near their wagon or underneath it.
What is the "power of the purse"?
The elected assembly's control of the governor's salary and finances of government activities.
Who were freeholders?
These were free adult white male property owners who could vote for local representatives.
What were the justices of the peace?
These were judges appointed by the local governor who held trials for people accused of crimes and settled disputes between citizens.
What was a township?
The basic unit of government in which town meetings were held, and freeholders could have their say concerning the community.
What type of population growth had a greater impact on the colonies than immigration?
Natural increase where more families settled in America.
What were the two most populous groups that came to the early colonies?
The English and Scots-Irish