A | B |
european exploration | led to redistribution of world's population |
commercial expansion | result of triangular trade |
covenant community | based on ideas of Mayflower compact |
town meetings | Puritan's effort at direct democracy |
middle colonies | settled by English, Dutch, Germans |
middle colonies | came for religous and economic opportunities |
cavaliers | English nobility who were given land in England by King |
indentured servants | had passage to new world paid in return for serivce to someone for a period of years |
1607 | date Jamestown was founded |
House of Burgesses | first elected assembly in New World |
Spain | explored and colonized Caribbean, Central and South America |
Indians | lost their land, died from European diseases and warfare |
French | this group got along well with Indians |
slavery | developed as result of cash crop econonmy in south |
tobacco, rice, indigo | cash crops of South |
Puritans | believed in hard work and thrift |
intolerance | Puritans practiced this when it came to different religous beliefs |
religous standing | what made you important in the New England colonies |
dissenters | these people founded Rhode Island |
tolerance | These colonies practiced this and grew in diversity |