| A | B |
|---|
| House of Burgesses | first self-representative government |
| Jamestown | founded in 1607 for economic reasons |
| plantations | large farms where slave labor was used |
| tobacco | major cash crop of the southern colonies |
| Christoper Columbus | accidentally discovered America |
| Plymouth | second colony founded for religous reasons |
| the Mayflower | name of ship that sailing from England to Jamestown but got caught in storm |
| Mayflower Compact | first self government in America |
| Seperatists | fled from England to escape persecution |
| Roger Williams | believed in separation of church and state, founded Rhode Island |
| Thomas Hooker | believed you did not have to be a puritan to vote, founded Connecticut |
| Anne Hutchinson | preached that God talked to you directly not only through the bible. |
| fishing, whaling, ship-building | New England economy |
| cash crops | southern colonies economy |
| breadbasket | middle colonies economy |
| mild | middle colonies geography |
| long growing season, fertile soil | southern colonies geography |
| long winters, cold, rocky soil | New England colonies geography |
| puritans | fleed England to escape persecution, very strict and hypocrits |
| protestant | religious group of people who are Christian |
| quaker | group of Protestants who opposed and violence and slavery |
| pacifists | people who oppose violence and war |
| William Penn | founded Pennsylvania for Quakers. |
| Pensylvania | Founded by William Penn |
| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | stated that men were able to vote based off of land owned rather than religious beliefs |
| Tolerant Government | middle colonies government |
| Triangular Trade | trading system where 3 continents traded slaves and goods |
| Middle Passage | route across the atlantic ocean where slaves were taken to get to America |
