Vocab Flashcards
Farming only enough crops to feed their own families
Subsistence farming
Planter elite
Gentry
Men chosen to manage the town’s affairs and appointed any other officials the town needed
Selectmen
Skilled workers who knew how to manufacture various goods. Included carpenters, bakers, masons, coppers, iron and silversmiths, glass makers, seamstresses, shoemakers
Artisans
Business people who risked their money by buying land , equipment, and supplies and selling them to the new immigrants for a profit
Entrepreneurs
Set of ideas about the world economy and how it works
Mercantilism
Large public meetings for preaching and praying
Revival
People who wanted to purify the Anglican Church of all catholic elements
Puritans
Representatives of the virginia government which was called the house or burgesses
Burgesses
System in which settlers were granted land in exchange for settling in Virginia. New settlers who bought a share in the company or paid for their passage were granted 50 acres
Head right
Colony owned by an individual
Proprietary colony
Group of puritans who broke away from the church to form their own congregation
Separatists
Opposition to war or violence as a means to settle disputes
Pacifism
Made barrels
Cooper
Large commercial estates where many laborers lived on the land and cultivated the crops for the landowner
Plantation
