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Dive into the history of colonial America, from Puritan settlements to the Triangular Trade. Learn how diverse cultures shaped the Southern, New England, and Middle Colonies, and explore the impact of slavery, colonial governments, and trade routes.
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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
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
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.
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
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
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
