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  • the basic unit of government in the New England colonies
    township
  • Exported products from the New England colonies
    fish (cod), whale products, and ships
  • Name three duties of the justice of the peace.
    held trials, settled disputes, collected taxes, granted licenses, recorded property deeds, and sometimes conducted elections
  • Problems with the triangular trade
    slavery increased, wealth became a higher priority over spiritual values
  • the war between Metacomet and New England colonists from 1675-1678
    King Philip's War
  • farmers who raised just enough crops and livestock to provide for their families
    subsistence farmers
  • the purest form of democracy or direct government; what all freeholders could attend
    town meetings
  • freeman who owned property and the only ones with the privilege to vote in the colonies
    freeholders
  • What was the second largest group of immigrants to colonize America?
    Scots-Irish
  • a large wave of immigrants from Europe to America during America's early years
    Great Migration
  • a covered mode of transportation that became popular for wilderness trails
    Conestoga wagons
  • Three kinds of colonial governments
    charter, proprietary, and royal
  • the local army in the colonies
    militia
  • Exported products from the middle colonies
    livestock and furs
  • Name three groups of people who colonized America.
    English, Scots-Irish, Germans, Dutch, Swedes, French Huguenots, and Africans
  • The smaller groups of immigrants
    Dutch, Swedes, and French Huguenots
  • towns where new Indian converts could come to learn about the Bible, European laws, manners, and town life
    praying towns
  • the colonial government where a proprietor named the leader
    proprietary
  • the Indian war started in 1637 between Massachusetts Bay Colony and the Pequot tribe
    Pequot War
  • The geography of the New England colonies
    hilly with thin, rocky soil
  • local magistrates or judges in the colonies
    justice of the peace
  • What group of immigrants mostly came over as slaves?
    Africans
  • the colonial government where the king selected the leaders
    royal
  • The geography of the southern colonies
    large fields of farmland and wide coastal plains
  • an underdeveloped area at the edge of settled areas
    frontier
  • a natural passage in the mountains; also called the Wilderness Road
    Cumberland Gap
  • the primary tax of the colonies that became the main source of income for the governments
    property tax
  • The geography of the middle colonies
    many rivers, hills, and fertile plains with rich soil
  • the trade network that carried slaves, cash crops, and manufactured goods between west Africa, the Caribbean, the colonies, and Europe
    triangular trade
  • the colonial government where the citizens elected the leaders and had the least interference with Britain
    charter
  • Exported products from the southern colonies
    cash crops (rice, tobacco, and indigo)
  • Benefits of the triangular trade
    increase in profit, goods/supplies traveled all over the world
  • What group of immigrants was encouraged by William Penn to settle first in Pennsylvania?
    Germans
  • the control of government money
    power of the purse
  • Two reasons for mission work among the Indians
    (1) genuine concern for their souls, (2) a desire for them to become more European
  • the low land along coastal rivers and inlets
    tidewaters
  • large farms in the southern colonies
    plantations
  • What is the largest group of people to colonize America?
    English
  • the conflict in the southern colonies that began with the Indians and ended in violence among the colonists
    Bacon's Rebellion
  • Two ways population increased in the colonies
    Great Migration and natural increase
  • Name three factors that influenced the economies of the early settlers.
    climate, geography, and resources
  • the Puritan minister who translated the first Bible into Algonquian
    John Eliot
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