Colonial America Flashcards
Markets
A open place of covered building where buyers an sellers convene for the sales of goods.
Protestant Reformation
The schism within Western Christianity initiated by John Calvin and Martin Luther.
Goods
Article of trade; wares; merchandise
Colony
A group of people who eave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, parent nation
Jamestown
First permanent English settlement in North America 1607
Raw materials
An inlet of the Atlantic, off the east coast of Massachusetts
New England
An area in the NE United States, including the states of Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont.
Southern Colonies
Georgia, South Carolina, and North Carolina
Pilgrims
A person who journeys, especially a long distance, to some sacred place as an act of religious devotion
Mayflower Compact
An agreement to establish a government, entered into by the pilgrims in the cabin of the Mayflower on November 11, 1620
Town Meeting
A general meeting of the inhabitants of a town
Agriculture
The production of crops, livestock, or poultry
Self-government
The condition of being self governed
Democracy
Political or social equality
Plantations
a usually large farm or estate, especially in a tropical or semitropical country, on which cotton, tobacco, coffee, sugar cane, or the like is cultivated, usually by resident laborers