European Colonization Review 2.3-2.6

A religious group that wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay.

• Debtors

• Indentured Servants

• Puritans

• Catholics

1620 - The first agreement for self-government in America. It was signed by the 41 men on a ship and set up a government for the Plymouth colony.

• The Declaration of Independence

• Magna Carta

• The Constitution

• The Mayflower Compact

Colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years

• Debtors

• Pilgrims

• Catholics

• Indentured Servants

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts materials from colonies and by selling more goods than they bought. They would pass laws to benefit companies or trade relationships that supported home country.

• Mercantilism

• Capitalism

• Communism

• Imperialism

A brutal and horrific voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

• Middle Passage

• Atlantic Passage

• Africa Passage

• New World Passage

Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights. Some made it illegal to learn to read and write, have weapons, or meet in groups.

• slave codes

• colonist codes

• indentured servants code

• religious code

An account of an event created by someone who took part in or witnessed the event. Olaudah Equiano autobiography.

• biography

• secondary source

• primary source

• credible source

The Mayflower Compact showed that the Pilgrims were

• ready to begin a new way of life without strangers.

• aware of the need to make their own government

• aware of how different they were from other colonists.

• willing to follow the same laws as Virginia.

The increase in the number of enslaved Africans arriving in America was largely due to         

•  the development of the plantation system, the decline in willing indentured servants, increasing racist ideology.

•  greater efforts to capture Africans by other Africans

• an increase in the number of European slave traders

• changing attitudes about the justice of owning slaves

What was the main reason that several New England cities became major shipbuilding centers?

• These cities needed ships for deep-sea fishing.

       

• These cities had a large slave population who were shipbuilding experts.

• The city governments supported shipbuilding

• The cities were located on the coast and had plenty of wood nearby.