Social Studies test

• -no useful skills (people who came had)
• -surrounded by marshes full of disease-carrying mosquitoes

started by the london company, colonists who paid their own way to virginia recieved 50 acres of land. a colonist could earn another 50 acres for every additional person brought from england

• -to escape religious persecution in england
• -english catholics had long been against englands separation from the roman catholic church, for this reason they were not allowed by the church of england to worship freely. english leaders also feared that enlgish catholics would ally with catholic countries such as france and spain in conflicts

some african americans had become enslaved after working as an indentured servant for the required time, and the demand for workers was soon greater than the supply of people willing to work as indentured servants. over time, the cost of slaves fell. these factors led some colonists to turn to slave labor. by the mid-1600s, most africans in virginia were being kept in life long slavery

• -indentured servents, slaves
• -long growing season, close to water(great for transportation), suitable for growing cash crops(rice, tobacco, indigo)
• -large plantations
• -fear of uprising from the slaves
• -slaves were treated BAD

were a separatist grouyp that left england in the early 1600s to escape persecution. they went to netherlands but the children were learning dutch culture and the parents were not happy, so the moved to america in order to be able to practice their own beliefs and choose the way they wanted to live

• -describe the reasons they want to form a colony in north america, promise to obey laws that help the whole colony
• -IT WAS A LEGAL CONTRACT IN WHICH THEY AGREED TO HAVE FAIR LAWS TO PROTECT THE GENERAL GOOD
• -represents one of the first attempts at self government in the english colornies

-idea that you can have a good relationship with God without ministers, priests, etc: (women were supposed to keep quiet, lived in a very religious area at the time)

-very important, a law was passed that said for every 50 families in an area, there had to be a school. children had to learn how to read and write because the parents wanted them to k now how to read the bible

-farmland was poor, the freezing weather

-women took care of the family

-because the farmland was poor and there were many forests around, these colonists had to turn to shipbuilding(OUT OF THE FORESTS WOOD) as a main income for their economy

• -slaves were treated better
• -protestants, SOME slaves, dutch(swedish, finnish, scottish), quakers
• -harsh winters(cold), short growing season, weather=worries for crops

• -staple crops(farming, but not like plantations-short growing season)=wheat, barley, oats
• -raised livestock=pigs, labs, chickens, etc

largely filled the middle colonies' growing labor needs

merchants in philadelphia and new york city exported colonial goods to markets in britain and the west indies. these products included wheat from new york, pennsylvania, and new jersey

this act reduced the powers ot the enligsh monarch, at the same time, parliament gained power

a system of creating and maintaining wealth through carefully controlled trade

• -limited colonial trade
• -navigation act of 1660 forbade colonists from trading specific items such as sugar and cotton with any other country other than england. the act also required colonists to use english ships to transport goods. parliament alter passed other acts that required all trade goods to pass through english ports, where duties, or import taxeswere added.
• -TO MAKE SURE ENGLAND STILL MADE A PROFIT FROM THE COLONIES EVEN THOUGH THEY WERE ACROSS THE OCEAN

a religious movement that swept through the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s that changed colonial religion. johnathan edwards gave sermons telling sinners to seek forgiveness for their sins or face punishment in hell forever

tensions had arisen between new england colonists and wampanoag indians. colonists efforts to take his peoples land, these tensions eventually erupted in war

each side came to depend upon the other

direct way to tax colonists, they had to purchase a stamp on ANY paper product they owned

a british soldier and an english colonist got into an argument, british soldier struck colonist

a protest by the colonists about the new english taxation laws

a gathering of colonial leaders who were deeply troubled about the relationship between great britain and its colonies in america

he and others believed that violence was unavoidable

• some delegates called for war, others for peace
• sent word to colonial authorities for new state constitutions
• massachusetts militia-continental army

• minutemen at lexington, john patker(patriot captain) yelled not to fire, but a shot rang out, nobody knows who shot it
• ended in minutes, 8 patriots dead, 10 wounded; 1 british dead and they moved to concord