Colonies and People
The first permanent English colony in America (1607)
What is Jamestown?
The Pilgrims signed this agreement to govern themselves by majority rule.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
A crop grown to sell for money (like tobacco or rice).
What is a cash crop?
This 1754–1763 war was fought between Britain and France over land in North America.
What is the French and Indian War?
A colony owned and governed by one person or a small group.
What is a Proprietary Colony?
English settlers who came on the Mayflower seeking religious freedom.
Who are the Pilgrims?
The first representative assembly in the colonies, created in Virginia in 1619
What is the House of Burgesses?
System where colonies existed to make the “mother country” rich.
What is mercantilism?
This Native American helped the Pilgrims learn how to plant crops and survive.
Who is Squanto?
The country that owns and controls colonies.
What is the Mother Country?
Religious group that wanted to “purify” the Church of England.
Who are the Puritans?
This term means a colony controlled directly by the king.
What is a Royal Colony?
These are natural resources like lumber and cotton.
What are raw materials?
This valuable farming product saved Jamestown from collapse.
What is tobacco?
A system of trade between Europe, Africa, and the Americas.
What is the Triangular Trade?
This “Lost Colony” mysteriously disappeared in the late 1500s
What is Roanoke?
Early Jamestown had very strict rules called these
What are the Laws Divine, Moral, and Martial?
These are finished products made from raw materials, like clothing or tools.
What are manufactured goods?
Colonists and Native Americans fought over resources in Virginia in these wars
What are the Anglo-Powhatan Wars?
Export and an import
What are exports send goods and services out of a country, while imports bring goods and services into a country
A person who worked a set number of years to pay off their trip to the colonies.
What is an indentured servant?
In Plymouth, this group of elected leaders made decisions and created laws.
What is the General Court?
British laws that said the colonies could only trade with England
What are the Navigation Acts?
Britain gained Canada and all French land east of the Mississippi after this treaty.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1763)?
Colonists gave England raw materials and bought back goods in this type of economic relationship
What is mercantilism?