Settlement and 13 Colonies

Question 1

Mercantilism

Answer 1

Economic theory that is designed to maximize the exports and minimize the imports for an economy

Question 2

Chesapeake Colonies

Answer 2

Settled by join-stock ventures (young, single men) for commercial agriculture. Most were indentured servants

Question 3

Indentured servants

Answer 3

A worker under contract for about 3-7 years in exchange for transportation, food, clothing, etc. (Not slavery)

Question 4

New England Colonies

Answer 4

Originally settled for religious reasons. Entire families moved. Set up independent “Democratic” town governments.

Question 5

New England Farms (Subsistence Farming)

Answer 5

To get by, not get rich, grew food for families.

Question 6

Major New England Exports

Answer 6

Fish, Livestock, Timber, mixed goods

Question 7

Merchant Elite

Answer 7

Rich business men Biggest hub was Boston to Philly to NY. Created Wealth gap

Question 8

Middle Colonies

Answer 8

Produced most of the food for colonies. Port cities were NYC and Philly. Merchants dominated. Most were Quakers

Question 9

Breadbasket Colonies

Answer 9

Middle Colonies

Question 10

Quakers

Answer 10

religion devoted to peace, and prosperity.

Question 11

Southern Colonies

Answer 11

Slavery. Warm climate. Made growing cash crops easy. Tobacco, Indigo Rice.

Question 12

Cash Crop

Answer 12

For sale/profit, requires a large labor force (Indentured servants or slaves),

Question 13

Yeoman Farmers

Answer 13

Lower/Middle class white men without slaves. Smaller areas of land

Question 14

The Middle Passage

Answer 14

Africa to America, slave leg of triangular trade.

Question 15

Salutary Neglect

Answer 15

ignoring or looking the other way when things benefited you (What Britain did to Early America)