Settling

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Settling The South
Life in New England
Life in The Middle
Life in The South
A little bit of This and That
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Lord Baltimore (the second one) was granted a
charter for this colony.
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Maryland
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Lord Baltimore issued this law guaranteeing all
Christians the right to worship as they please,
but the law did not include rights for Jews.
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Toleration Act of 1649
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Some settlers from the West Indies introduced
this cash crop that produced a rich blue dye.
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Indigo
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This man established a colony in Georgia,
allowing English debtors to come to America for
fresh start.
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James Oglethorpe
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This nation presented a potential threat to the
south of Georgia and the rest of the English
colonies.
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Spain
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These craft workers were able to find work in New
England building ships, making sails, making
rope, and other such materials.
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Artisans
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Because of the poor soil in New England, you
would mostly find these - small, family farms.
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Subsistence Farms
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On this day, otherwise known as Sunday, Puritans
would set aside household chores, put on their
best clothes, and worship throughout the day.
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The Sabbath
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This mans job was to wake drowsy church-goers by
tickling them or whacking them on the head.
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The tithingman
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Thomas Jefferson referred to this as the the
wisest invention ever devised by the wit of man
for the perfect exercise of self-government and
for its preservation.
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The Town Meeting
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The cash crops of choice in the Middle Colonies
were wheat and other grains, eventually ground by
millers and turned into a variety of foods.
Therefore, these colonies soon become known as
this.
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breadbasket colonies
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One of these would be a trainee to a master craft
worker.
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Apprentice
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In the early colonial years, the Appalachian Mts.
represented this - a thinly settled area on the
outer limits of the colonies.
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frontier
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This creation, named after a valley in
Pennsylvania, could travel on poor roads and
carry large loads of agricultural products.
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The Conestoga Wagon
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In the mid-1700s, New York and this other city
surpassed Boston in size, as shipping became an
increasingly important part of the economy.
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Philadelphia
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City life was becoming increasingly important in
the Middle Colonies, but the South was mostly
farmland with few towns and one major city
(Charles Town). Therefore, the South would be
described as this.
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Rural
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This was the route that brought millions of
enslaved people out of Africa and to America.
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Middle Passage
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These laws denied enslaved Africans most of their
rights, making them property of their owners.
Most were not allowed to read and write.
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Slave Codes
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This crop was one of the most profitable in South
Carolina and Georgia, with their swampy coasts.
It was brought from South Carolina, and African
workers were experienced in farming it, making
them too valuable for their own good.
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Rice
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This woman managed a family plantation in South
Carolina, and she promoted the growing of indigo.
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Eliza Lucas
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The settlers in Connecticut eventually fought
these Natives as they claimed more and more land
for themselves.
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Pequots
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A country following this economic policy would
try to gain wealth by selling more goods than it
buys.
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mercantilism
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This was the first representative law-making body
in the English colonies.
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House of Burgesses (Virginia)
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This is the opportunity for a person to move from
one social class to another.
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Social Mobility
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Large numbers of Native Americans were killed by
this contagious disease, because they had no
resistance to the virus and easily became
infected.
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Small Pox