Chapter 3 Test Flashcards
(31 cards)
As more families came to America the population grew faster
Natural Increase
Protestants (a.k.a.)
French Huguenots
African slaves journey from Africa to America
The Middle Passage
The undeveloped area at the edge of the settled areas
Frontier
The main north-south highway that stretched seven hundred miles
Great Wagon Road
Wagons used to carry belongings on wilderness trails
Conestoga Wagon
The farmers who raised just enough food for their families
Subsistence Farmer
Large fields usually tended by laborers
Plantation
The South’s wide coastal plain
Tidewater
The foothills of the Appalachian Mountains
Piedmont
The largest food crop in all the colonies
Corn/Maize
The trade between Boston, England, and Africa
Triangular Trade
The Puritan minister who translated the Bible for the Indians
John Eliot
Where Indians could learn about the Bible (set up by John Eliot)
Praying Towns
The war in 1637 where the colonists amushed an Indian fort and killed many Indians and sold the rest as slaves
Pequot War
The war where so many Indians died in it that the remaining Indians could not maintain their land or their way of life.
King Philip’s War
The war where the colonists rebelled against their leadership
Bacon’s Rebellion
The local army commanded by the governor
Militia
A legislature’s power
“Power of the Purse”
The group that tried people accused of crimes and settled dispute between citizens
Justices of the Peace
The tax people payed when they owned land
Property Taxes
The basic unit of government in New England
Township
Men that would watch over the town during the night
Night Watchmen
A relief effort which sent a poor person to live several weeks with each family
“Round the Town”