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34 Cards in this Set
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agriculture
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most colonists made their living this way |
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subsistence farmers
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New England farmers only grew enough to feed their families and then sold the rest
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everyone
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which members of the family worked on the farms?
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blacksmiths, shoemakers, furniture makers, and gunsmiths |
aside from farming, people also made money these ways
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trade
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was a great source of income for the New England colonies |
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shipbuilding |
New England colonies had lots of forests so that also made this an important industry
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wheat |
Middle Colonies could grow this because their land was more fertile then New England's colonies |
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cash crops |
crops that could easily be sold in markets |
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industry in the Middle Colonies
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lumber mills, mines, ironworks, and small-scale , manufacturing
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cultural diversity |
the Middle Colonies had a lot of settlers from all over the world
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tobacco, rice
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Southern Colonies had rich soil and a warm climate that made these crops possible
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European Companies |
not a lot of industry in the Southern Colonies so these people managed its trade |
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Tidewater
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most plantations were located here |
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plantations |
small villages with blacksmiths, carpenters, and even their own chapels and schools, farmers had more power |
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large plantations
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had about 200 slaves, |
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small plantations |
had about 50 slaves |
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backcountry region
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small farms grew corn and tobacco and had few slaves, more farmers than large plantation farmers |
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slavery
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widely practiced in West Africa by the time it reached North America |
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slaves
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some had been deafeated in war, others worked in gold mines or on farms |
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West African Traders |
found slaves by wars and village raids |
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The Middle Passage
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a slave's journey across the Atlantic Ocean, often the second or third leg of the route known as the triangular trade
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slave treatment on middle passage
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received very little food or water, whipped, and if they died, they were thrown overboard |
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slave codes
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rules for governing the behavior of slaves, ex: it was illegal to teach a slave to read or write, or gather in groups |
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trades learned by slaves |
carpentry, blacksmithing, or weaving |
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King john
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This guy signed the manga carta
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Manga carta |
Set of rules and laws that said everyone was to follow rules And walls and everyone including Kings queens were bound by law |
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Parliment |
Representational government where people elect delegates to make laws |
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English Bill of Rights |
This stated that the ruler cannot suspend parliaments laws impose taxes or raise an army without parliaments consent |
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Navigational acts |
Laws that forced colonists to sell their raw materials to England even if they could get a better price somewhere else |
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Suspend |
To temporarily set aside or stop operation of something |
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Impose |
To force on others |
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Merchantilism |
An economic theory that a nations power depends on its ability to increase wealth by increasing exports and receiving precious metals |
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Export |
To sell goods to other countries; a good made in one country and then sold to another |
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Import |
To bring in goods from foreign countries |
