Unit 3 Lesson 1

1. Unit 3 Lesson 1 New England

2. 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

3. 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.

4. The Middle Colonies • Unit 3 Lesson 2

5. Vocabulary • Patroon- wealthy Dutch men who agreed to bring 50 people to their colony • Proprietor- a person who is granted ownership of a colony

6. 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

7. Lesson 3 The Southern Colonies

8. 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

9. 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

10. Lesson 4 Colonial Life

11. 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

12. 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.

13. Lesson 5: Slavery in the Colonies

14. Vocabulary • Slave Codes- laws that set out rules of slavery • Spiritual- a religious song created by enslaved Africans

15. 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

16. Lesson 6 Colonial Economies

17. 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

18. 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

19. Lesson 7 Colonial Governments

20. Vocabulary • Assembly- a lawmaking body • Legislation- the making of laws

21. Charters allowed colonies to make their own laws and assemblies • People can work for a change by voting and writing to politician