A | B |
Roanoke Island | site of Lost Colony |
Jamestown | First permanent English Colony |
1607 | Date Jamestown was founded |
joint stock company | The Virginia Company |
Reason for English Colonization | economic venture |
Plymouth Colony | settled by Separtists from the church of England |
Separatists | religious dissenters- Pilgrims |
Puritans | Massachusetts Bay Colony |
Pennsylvania | Quakers |
Georgia | settled by people from debtor's prison |
the colonial divisions | New England, Mid- Atlantic, and Southern Colonies |
New England's climate | moderate summers, cold winters |
New England's geography | Appalachian Mountains, Boston Harbor, hilly terrain, rocky soil, jagged coastline |
New England's economy | fishing, shipbuilding, and naval supplies, trade, skilled craftsmen and shopkeepers |
New England's social life | village and church as center |
New England's political and civic life | town meetings |
Mid Atlantic Geography | Appalachian mountains, coastal lowlands, rich farmland |
Mid Atlantic climate | moderate temperature |
Mid Atlantic economy | livestock and grain and trading |
Mid Atantic social life | villages and cities, varied and diverse lifestyles |
Mid Atlantic civic life | Market towns |
South's geography | Appalachian Mountains, Piedmont, Atlantic Coastal Plain, good harbors |
South's climate | humid |
South's economy | large farms/plantations, cash crops, wood products, small farms, slavery |
South's social life | plantations, slavery, mansions, indentured servants, few cities, few schools |
South's religious life | Church of England |
South's political life | counties |
plantations | large farms |
cash crops | crops sold not consumed by farmer |
indentured servants | worked for their ticket to the colonies usually for 5-7 years |
Artisans | craftsmen lived in cities and plantations |
women | worked as caretakers, house- workers, and homemakers |
the vote was not given to | women and slaves |
slaves | were captured, sold and traded |
group that had no rights | slaves |
England's policy toward colonies | strict control over trade |
England traded | goods for raw materials from the colonies |
English law was enforced by | governors |
Governors were appointed by | the King |
Colonial legislators were governed by | colonial governors |