1.4 Vocabulary 2018

A group of colonies south of the Middle Colonies. They are Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Georgia.

• Middle Colonies

• Southern Colonies

• New England Colonies

• 13 Colonies

Farm crops that are grown for the sole purpose to be sold for a profit.

• Agrarian

• Subsistence Farming

• Cash Crop

• Crops

An early Idea of how the New World would be used to make money; farming the land was thought to be the best way America would make money in the beginning.

• Agrarian

• Cash Crop

• Cropping

• Agriculture

A large farm that used enslaved people to grow and harvest 1 or 2 types of cash crops.

• Agrarian

• Cash Crops

• Plantation

• Farm

Men/Women being sold from Africa to the New World to be used as slave labor.

• Trade Show

• Trading

• Exporting

• Trans-Atlantic Slave Trading

Materials found on Earth that people use to make goods.

• Resources

• Recovery

• Exploring

• Materials

The first representative government (legislative assembly) in the colonies.

• Virginia House of Representatives

• Virginia House of Burgers

• Virginia House of Mirrors

• Virginia House of Burgesses

A system in which voters elect representatives to make laws for them.

• Congress

• House of Representatives

• Executive Branch

• Representative Government

When was Jamestown Founded? It was the first Permanent English colony in the "New World"

• 1620

• 1776

• 1787

• 1607

What year did the Pilgrims arrive in the "New World" and signed the Mayflower Compact before exiting the boat?

• 1607

• 1620

• 1776

• 1851-1865