Lesson 3 The Thirteen English Colonies Vocabulary

crops sold for money at market

• cash crops

• substinence farming

• bread basket

• economy

a type of agriculture in which people live on what they grow themselves, rather than selling what they produce

• cash crops

• substinence farming

• bread basket

• economy

The Middle Colonies of Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and New York made up the _________ colonies. They produced more food than any of the other colonies.

• cash crops

• substinence farming

• bread basket

• economy

the wealth and resources of a country or region, especially in terms of the production and consumption of goods and services

• cash crops

• substinence farming

• bread basket

• economy

Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people

• Quaker

• sect

• deprive

• mercantilism

a religious group that is a smaller part of a larger group

• Quaker

• sect

• deprive

• mercantilism

to take something away

• Quaker

• sect

• deprive

• mercantilism

the theory that a nation's economic strength came from selling more than it bought from other nations

• Quaker

• sect

• deprive

• mercantilism

prevented the colonies from shipping any goods anywhere without first stopping in an English port to have their cargoes loaded and unloaded

• Quaker

• cash crops

• Navigation Acts

• mercantilism

trade route that connected the Thirteen English Colonies, England, West Africa and the Caribbean

• Bread Basket

• The Navigation Acts

• Triangular Trade

• Mercantilism