Unit 3 Lesson 1

New England

Vocabulary

• Covenant- an agreement• Common- center of a village used by all• Tolerate- allow people to have beliefs or

behaviors that are different for everyone

• Fundamental- basic• Slavery- practice of owning people and forcing

them to work

• Puritans went to New England for religious freedom and governed themselves.

• Settlers who disagreed with Puritan life established new colonies.

• Wars between settlers and Native Americans broke out in New England.

• King Philip’s War started because English Colonists took over Wampanoag land.

The Middle Colonies

• Unit 3 Lesson 2

Vocabulary

• Patroon- wealthy Dutch men who agreed to bring 50 people to their

colony

• Proprietor- a person who is granted ownership of a colony

• New Netherland was a center for trade filled with people from all over the world

• Settlers from many different cultures came to New York and New Jersey

• William Penn gave the colonists the rights to religious freedom and trial by jury

• Penn started a colony for freedom to practice his Quaker beliefs

Lesson 3 The Southern Colonies

Vocabulary

• Plantation- a large farm that grows one crop as a cash crop

• Indigo- plant used to make blue dye

• Debtor- person who owes money but cannot repay it

• Catholics and Protestants found religious freedom in Maryland

• Carolina split into North and South while Georgia started as a debtor colony

• Settlers came to Georgia because Protestants had freedom of religion and free land was available

Lesson 4 Colonial Life

Vocabulary

• Slave trade- business of buying and selling people

• Apprentice- someone who works for a skilled person to learn a trade or craft

• Great Awakening- period in the 1700’s in which interest in religion grew

• Backcountry- land between the Appalachian Mountains and the Atlantic Coastal Plain

• Indentured servants got a free trip to America if they worked for 5-7 years on a plantation.

• The back country was cheaper to live in compared to land along the coast

• Since the colonists took to much land and broke their promises, the Yamasee War started in Carolina.

Lesson 5: Slavery in the Colonies

Vocabulary

• Slave Codes- laws that set out rules of slavery

• Spiritual- a religious song created by enslaved Africans

• Massachusetts was the first colony to make slavery legal

• Most slaves lived on plantations in the south because they needed a lot of workers. Northern slaves became skilled workers such as a blacksmith

• Some slaves resisted slavery by slowing down work, losing or breaking tools, escaping and rebelling

Lesson 6 Colonial Economies

Vocabulary

• Triangular trade- shipping route between Africa, the West Indies and England or North America

• Middle Passage- part of the triangular trade route between Africa and West Indies, where African captives were transported to the West Indies

• Industry- all the business that make one kind of product or provide one kind of service

• New England’s cash crop was fish• People who benefited most from the

triangular trade were merchants in New England

• England made it illegal for colonists to make certain goods because they wanted colonists to buy these goods from England

• Colonists viewed the trade laws as unfair

Lesson 7 Colonial Governments

Vocabulary

• Assembly- a lawmaking body

• Legislation- the making of laws

• Charters allowed colonies to make their own laws and assemblies

• People can work for a change by voting and writing to politician