quiz Flashcards
(21 cards)
A system that allowed powerful nations of Europe to accumulate wealth from New World colonies
Mercantilism
crops grown primarily fro profit
cash crops
slaves who agreed to work for a landowner for 4-7 years for food/home
Indentured servants
state allowing different forms of worship
Separation of church and state
A town in Virginia, founded in 1607, was the first successful colony in America
Jamestown
boarded mayflower, landed and founded Massachussets in 1630
Pilgrims
persecuted those who believed in something other than what was taught in the Church of England
Puritans
slaves become property of land owners and are not paid for their labor
plantation system
settled in PA in 1862 under their leader, William Pen
Quakers
religious group that found MD as a havem
Catholics
People who did not agree with the church of England
Religious Dissenter
High taxes and low tobacco prices caused resentment in the colony. Bacon and his men burned Jamestown in what became known as..
Bacon’s Rebellion
male landowning residents in New England would hold these, one of the earliest forms of democracies
Town Meetings
of 1962, in MA caused 19(women mostly) to be hung because their behavior didn’t conform to religious/ political convention
Salem Witch Trials
In mid-1700s this was very big, where religious leaders preached to those who needed a spiritual rebirth
First Great Awakening
New England colonies
MA, CT, NH, RI`
Middle Colonies
NY, NJ, PA, DE
Southern Colonies
SC, NC, GA, VA, MD
Middle Colonies
- good relationship with Native Americans
- religious toleration(Quakes came for religious freedom)
- most diverse colony
- transportation of goods with rivers
- cash crops- farm for $$
New England Colonies
- terrible rocky soil & harsh weather
- depended on fishing, lumber, fur trade and metal work to nourish economy
- luxury goods from England
- sold goods to other colonies & England
- sold slaves to Southern Colonies
- people grew their own food
Southern Colonies
- First english colonists settled in Jamestown, VA
- wanted to find gold for quick $$$
- ^failed and abandoned Jamestown
- John Rolfe discovered tobacco growing
- Tobacco & rice became major cash crops
- cash crops grown on huge plantations and tons of workers
- slaves and indentured servants did this work^
- small amt of people had large land
- religion wasn’t a big deal
- 1619 House of Burgesses (first ex of Representative gov)
