chapter 1.1
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NatashioCheerio on February 12, 2011
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civics vocab
chapter 1
goal 1-1.8
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 new england | a region of northeastern United States comprising Maine and New Hampshire and Vermont and Massachusetts and Rhode Island and Connecticut |
| middle colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware |
| southern colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| jamestown | a former village on the James River in Virginia north of Norfolk |
| plantation system | A system of agricultural production based on large-scale land ownership and the exploitation of labor and the environment. This system focused on the production of cash crops and utilized slave labor. |
| mercantilism | an economic system (Europe in 18th C) to increase a nation's wealth by government regulation of all of the nation's commercial interests |
| Indentured servants | colonists who received free passage to North America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years |
| slavery | the condition of being owned by another person and being made to work without wages |
| middle passage | the route in between the western ports of Africa to the Caribbean and southern U.S. that carried the slave trade |
| triangular trade route | shipping routes that connected England, the English colonies, and Africa |
| pilgrims | English Puritans who founded Plymouth colony in 1620 |
| puritans | Protestant sect in England hoping to "purify" the Anglican church of Roman Catholic traces in practice and organization. |
| quakers | a Christian sect founded by George Fox about 1660 |
| catholics | Another name for the Angelicans |
| american indian | a member of the race of people living in North America when Europeans arrived, any of the languages spoken by Amerindians |
| religious dissenters | those who followed a faith other than the official one of England |
| bacon's rebellion | A rebellion lead by Nathaniel Bacon with backcountry farmers to attack Native Americans in an attemp to gain more land |
| town meetings | a gathering of all eligible voters to debate issues and pass laws |
| self governing colonies | colonies that were allowed to rule themselves |
| salem witch trials | 1629 outbreak of witchcraft accusations in a puritan village marked by an atmosphere of fear, hysteria and stress |
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