Build Our Nation Chapters 6-8
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- Wilderness
- A wild and unsettled land
- meeting house
- The most important building in a Puritan Village. Used for all kinds of community activities, from school to church
- self-sufficient
- Able to provide for all of their own needs.
- banish
- force to leave
- magistrates
- Led the government, made laws dealing with town affairs and people's relations with one another
- dissenters
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people who disagree with the views of their leaders.
Examples: Anne Hutchinson from Boston
Roger Williams from Massachusetts - Wampum
- A Native American form of money -- made from polished shells that were put onto strings
- import
- items bought from distant places. New Englanders imported coffee, tea, sugar, and ready-made goods like ribbons and guns
- triangular trade
- Trade routes between Africa, Europe, and North America that formed a triangle.
- Middle Passage
- The trip of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
- industry
- business to make or sell a product or service
- shipyards
- places where ships are built and repaired
- Piedmont
- A region of rolling hills through which ran fast-moving rivers down from the Appalachian Mountains
- fall line
- A line of waterfalls up and down the East Coast
- proprietor
- Single owner of large blocks of land
- religious toleration
- freedom of everyone to practice their religions as they wanted to
- "holy experiment"
- William Penn's colony which was governed according to Quaker beliefs, where all religions could be practiced freely.
- yeoman
- self-sufficient farmers who owned their own land
- back country
- The unsettled, or wilderness part of each colony, usually beyond the fall line.
- subsistence
- Farmers raised just enough wheat or corn to feed themselves
- apprentice
- a person who works with an older, experienced person to learn a skill.
- tidewater
- A costal area that has rivers which are affected by ocean tides.
- cash crops
- crops grown just to be sold
- exports
- goods shipped to other countries to be sold
- House of Burgesses
- Created by the colony of Virginia to make laws for the colony.
- representative
- a person who speaks for other people, also a burgess
- debtors
- poor people, or people who owed money
- trustees
- managers for the colony
- post road
- a route used by the postal service to deliver mail
- Profit
- extra money available after all expenses have been paid