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| Tobacco | major cash crop and source of wealth for Virginia |
| Powhatan | notable Native American chief in the Virginia region |
| House of Burgesses | first European style legislative body in the new world |
| Bacon's Rebellion | landless rebels in Virginia wanted harsher actions against Native Americans so that more land would be available |
| New England colonies | colony group first founded by Puritans in Massachusetts |
| King Phillip's War | as a result of this conflict, large areas of southern New England became English settlements |
| town meetings | usually how communities were run in New England |
| New Amsterdam | founded by the Dutch and then taken over by the British and renamed New York |
| Pennsylvania | colony founded by the religiously tolerant Quakers |
| mercantilism | economic theory stating the best way to become a strong nation was to acquire the most wealth |
| trans-Atlantic trade | Britian tried to control by requiring all goods shipped to and from America be transported in British ships |
| middle passage | the sea voyage that carried Africans to North America, usually in brutal conditions |
| Great Awakening (what) | religious movement in 1730s and 1740s in which people were told that each believer should seek his or her personal relationship with God |
| Benjamin Franklin | famous colonist who sought ways to improve himself (individualism) and rise in society (social mobility) |
| tobacco cultivation | was labor intensive and forced Virginia's economy to be dependent on slave labor |
| middle (Mid-Atlantic) colonies | mixture of farming and trade |
| salutary neglect | allowed the colonies virtual self rule |
| Great Awakening (why) | colonists began to challenge traditional authority |
| Southern economy | plantations and small farms |
| New England economy | trade and small business |
| Southern climate | hot and humid, good for farming |
| Middle Colonies climate | large rivers - good for trade and navigation |
