Unit 1 Vocabulary History Flashcards

Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island

People who challenged the Puritans' belief in allowing religion to rule the government; Founded by dissenters

This was a form of direct democratic rule in New England. All members of a community come together to legislate policies, budgets, and laws for local government

Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware

English Quaker leader and advocate of religious freedom, who oversaw the founding of the American Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as a refuge for Quakers and other religious minorities of Europe

Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia

A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower

A usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers.

Poor persons from England, Scotland, or Ireland who agreed to work on plantations for a period of time in return for their passage from Europe or relief from debts

An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies

1619-The Virginia House of Burgesses formed, the first legislative body in colonial America. Later other colonies would adopt house of Burgesses

Elected representative in colonial Virginia

Colonies in which the people could elect the governor and legislature

A powerful religious revival that occurred in the British North American colonies from the 1720s to the 1740s. It was a movement amoung Protestant Christians who were reacting to a number of religious conditions in the colonies

Puritan who was responsible for the Great Awakening

An economic policy under which nations sought to increase their wealth and power by exerting exclusive economic controls over their colonies; colonies existed only for the economic benefit of the mother country.