front 1 New England | back 1 Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Rhode Island |
front 2 New England Dissenters | back 2 People who challenged the Puritans' belief in allowing religion to rule the government; Founded by dissenters |
front 3 Town Hall Meetings | back 3 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 |
front 4 Middle Colonies | back 4 Pennsylvania, New York, New Jersey, Delaware |
front 5 William Penn | back 5 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 |
front 6 Southern Colonies | back 6 Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
front 7 Cash Crop | back 7 A crop produced for its commercial value rather than for use by the grower |
front 8 Plantation | back 8 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. |
front 9 Indentured Servants | back 9 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 |
front 10 Salutary Neglect | back 10 An English policy of not strictly enforcing laws in its colonies |
front 11 House of Burgesses | back 11 1619-The Virginia House of Burgesses formed, the first legislative body in colonial America. Later other colonies would adopt house of Burgesses |
front 12 Burgess | back 12 Elected representative in colonial Virginia |
front 13 Charter colonies | back 13 Colonies in which the people could elect the governor and legislature |
front 14 The Great Awakening | back 14 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 |
front 15 Jonathan Edwards | back 15 Puritan who was responsible for the Great Awakening |
front 16 Mercantilism | back 16 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. |