Chapter 3: Colonial Ways of Life
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Cash Crop | a crop grown primarily for market |
| Plantations | large commercial estates where many laborers lived on the land and cultivated the crops for the landowner |
| Indentured Servants | people who could not afford passage to the colonies could become indentured servants and another person would pay their passage, and in exchange the indentured servant would serve that person for seven years and then would be given their own land and freed. |
| Headright System | stated that every indentured servant transported to America also earned the landowner another 50 acres of land |
| Subsistence Farming | farming that provides for the basic needs of the farmer without surpluses for marketing |
| Sir William Berkeley | the governor of virginia during the Bacon rebellion. He controlled the legislature through his appoinments to the colony's governing council and gifts of land to members of the House of Burgesses. He also exempted himself and his councilors from taxation. |
| Nathaniel Bacon | a planter who led a rebellion against the governor of the Virginia Colony, Sir William Berkeley |
| Middle Passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern American colonies that carried the slave trade |
| Slave Code | a set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people |
| Selectmen | the men chosen to manage the town's affairs |
| Bills of Exchange | credit slips English merchants gave the planters in exchange for their sugar |
| Triangular Trade | three-way trade New England merchants established with the Caribbean colonies and England |
| Mercantilism | an economic system through which a country must gain as much gold and silver as possible, a country must export more than it's imports, must be self-sufficient |
| Navigation Act | if the colonies wanted to ship anywhere, then ram materials must be on British ships so that the materials can get taxed |
| Staple Act | colonist must pay extra tax on all staple goods (essential items) |
| Dominion of New England | the combining of New York and New Jersey in 1686 for the purpose of improving colonial defenses and to improve administration of the Navigation laws |
| Sir Edmund Andros | appointed by King James II to be the first governor general. He insisted that anyone who wanted a new deed would have to pay an annual tax to the government. Was rebelled upon because of such actions he took |
| Glorious Revolution | the revolution against James II, there was little armed resistance from James II towards William and Mary. James II fled as soon as William arrived in England |
| English Bill of Rights | it abolished the King's absolute power to suspend laws and create his own courts, made it illegal for the king to imposes taxes, or raise an army without parliament consent |
| Toleration Act | granted freedom of worship to nearly all protestants but not to Catholics and jews |
| John Locke | English empiricist philosopher who believed that all knowledge is derived from sensory experience, also said that everyone has natural rights |
| Natural Rights | the right to life, to liberty, and property |
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