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| colonization | when a group of immigrants start a settlement in a distant country |
| craftsmen | people who practice a craft with great skill |
| economic venture | a money-making undertaking |
| indentured servants | men who agreed to work for a determined amount of time in exchange for passage to the America |
| Mayflower Compact | an agreement in which the Pilgrims decided to set up a government and make fair laws |
| Puritans | colonists who felt the Church of England needed to be more pure |
| Quakers | a religious group that settled the Pennsylvania Colony |
| raw materials | natural materials that have not been processed |
| religious persecution | to cause a person to suffer because of their religious beliefs |
| religious reformers | people who formed various Protestant churches |
| Separatist | colonists who wanted to separate from the Church of England and practice a different religion |
| slaves | Africans who were owned as property for life, with no rights |
| common | area in the center of a Puritan village where settlers traded and grazed animals |
| cash crops | crops grown for profit |
| market towns | where settlers in Middle colonies went to trade and buy goods |
| breadbasket colonies | middle colonies where grain crops were important |
| House of Burgesses | first legislature in America (in Jamestown-Southern Colonies) |
| town meetings | where laws where made in New England towns |
| planters | owners of southern plantations |
| plantations | large areas of land that were used for planting cash crops |
| Frame of Government | freedoms provided in Penn's government (speech, religion, trial by jury) |
| Benjamin Franklin | modernized Philadelphia with paved roads, streetlights, a hospital, and a library |
| William Penn | founded Pennsylvania |
| George Calvert | founded Maryland for the Catholics |
| James Oglethorpe | brought debtors over to work in Georgia |
| John Winthrop | founded Massachusetts Bay |
| Anne Hutchinson | put on trial for holding church services at home; kicked out of Mass. Bay |
| Roger Williams | kicked out of Mass. Bay; founded Rhode Island |
| Thomas Hooker | founded Connecticut Colony for religious freedom |
| Fewer schools and churches | Southern Colonies |
| Which region was RELIGION most important? | New England Colonies |
| Rocky soil, not good for farming | New England Colonies |
| Good soil, long growing season | Southern Colonies |
| Whaling and shipbuilding | New England Colonies |
| slavery=economic survival | Southern Colonies |
| Frame of Government | Middle Atlantic Colonies were self-governed |
| Melting Pot | different countries, religions and cultures formed the Mid Atlantic Colonies |
| Plymouth Colony | New England Colonies |
| Jamestown | Southern Colonies |
| Very strict laws (specifically about Religion) | New England Colonies |
| exported from the colonies to England: | dried fish, fur, lumber |
| King Philip's War | conflict over land ownership between settlers and Native Americans |
| Whaling in New England Colonies: | Oil made from whale blubber was a popular source of lamp fuel. |
| Triangular trade routes | connected England, the English colonies, and the west coast of Africa. |
| the Middle Passage | he route that carried enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean from West Africa to the West Indies |
| Education in New England: | Purtans wanted every person to be able to read the Bible. |
| Quakers believed | violence is wrong |
| right to trial by jury | right of people accused of breaking the law to be tried by a group of fellow citizens |
| Who organized a militia? | Benjamin Franklin |
| Who helped establish the first colonial library? | Benjamin Franklin |
| Who organized the first trained firefighting company in the colonies? | Benjamin Franklin |
| When Georgia became a royal colony... | Slavery became legal, and large plantations began to develop throughout the colony. |
| Plantations in the Southern Colonies grew... | cash crops |
| slaves were not allowed to... | read or write |
| Toleration Act | The first law to allow all Christians to worship as they pleased. |
| An Apprentice | A young person who learns a job by living and working with a skilled worker |
