Vocabulary Terms Chapter Two
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 New England Colonies | Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire |
| Middle Colonies | Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey |
| Southern Colonies | Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
| Jamestown | first permanent English settlement in North America (1607) |
| Plantation System | larges farms that primarily grew a single cash crop and used slaves as the main source of labor |
| Mercantilism | economic theory that colonies exist to supply the mother country with resources and trade; a country should export more than it imports |
| Indentured Servants | people who worked for a certain amount of time to pay off the cost their passage to America |
| Slavery | when people are considered to be the property of others |
| Middle Passage | the long difficult voyage for slaves from Africa to the American colonies |
| Triangle Trade Route | three way trading system between Europe, Africa, West Indies and the American colonies |
| Pilgrims | people who left the Church of England to form their own church; fled from England to escape persecution, formed the Plymouth Colony |
| Puritans | people who wanted to reform the Church of England; also felt religious persecution; formed the Massachusetts Bay Company |
| Quakers | Protestant religious group whose beliefs were based on non-violence equality; William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania as a refugee for the Quakers |
| Catholics | religious group; Maryland was founded by Cecil Calvert as a refuge for persecuted Catholics |
| Religious dissenters | people who disagree with the religious views of a group |
| Bacon's Rebellion | class conflict in Jamestown in 1878 between poor frontier farmers and wealthy landowners |
| Town Meeting | used primarily in the New England colonies; these were an example of direct democracy |
| Joint Stock Company | allowed investors to pool their money in support of a colony that would hopefully yield profit |
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