Colonial America Flashcards
Import
A good that is imported from another place
Export
A good that is exported to another place
Mercantilism
Sell more than you buy
Economy
The money and resources a region has
Cash crop
A crop that a land sells that earns them profit
Indentured servant
A serpent that is bound by a contract and is force to work a fixed amount of years without pay but food and board.
Why did this first English colony almost fail? List 3 ways
Constant attacks from Natives.
Diesese infected swamps
Drought made it hard to farm so they had no food
How did Jamestown finally succeed
John smith set the law and said if they wanted to eat they had to work
Why did people come to the 13 Colonies list 3 ways
Economic opportunities
To flee persecution
Religious freedom
List how New England made their money
They had forests so they had lumber and ship building, rocky soil so they had to do something else other than had good harbors so they were a center of trade, they fished in their fast moving rivers
How did middle colonies make their money
Mining, they had rich soil so they had grain farms, they had forests so they had lumber, they had small farms and livestock that they would sell
Southern Colonies made money by….
Having fertile land made it possible for big plantations, they sold cash crops, they had slow moving rivers so it was easier to export and import things, slave labor
Magna Carta
Limited the power of the king
Bill of rights what did it do
Protected all English rights
Mat flower compact
Was the first source of self government
