Chapter 3 Vocab

Colony

• a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

• A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

• someone who sold their labor in exchange for the cost of the trip from Europe to the colonies

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

Charter

• a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

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

• belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

• A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

Mercantilism

• A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

• belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

• (1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.

• the idea that it is unfair to tax someone without giving them a voice in government

Jamestown

• Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.

• a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

• 
  The first permanent English settlement in North America, found in East Virginia

• A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

Powhatan Tribe

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

• Native American group that lived in Virginia at the time of Jamestown settlement

• English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preached a doctrine of pacifism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania

• Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.

Indentured Servants

• Group of English Protestant dissenters who established Plymouth Colony in Massachusetts in 1620 to seek religious freedom after having lived briefly in the Netherlands.

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

• someone who sold their labor in exchange for the cost of the trip from Europe to the colonies

• English dissenters who broke from Church of England, preached a doctrine of pacifism, inner divinity, and social equity, under William Penn they founded Pennsylvania

The Southern Colonies

• Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

• Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire

• New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware

• a country or area under the full or partial political control of another country, typically a distant one, and occupied by settlers from that country.

Cash Crop

• A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

• 
  crops that are always needed

• A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.

• a crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower.

Triangular Trade

• belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism.

• A document that gives the holder the right to organize settlements in an area

• A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

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

Middle Passage

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

• A three way system of trade during 1600-1800s Africa sent slaves to America, America sent Raw Materials to Europe, and Europe sent Guns and Rum to Africa

• 1754-1763) War fought in the colonies between the English and the French for possession of the Ohio Valley area. The English won.

• A proclamation from the British government which forbade British colonists from settling west of the Appalacian Mountains, and which required any settlers already living west of the mountains to move back east.