Unit 2 Test Review
Colonial Life
Jamestown, Virginia
- House of Burgesses: the first legislative body in the American colonies in Virginia (1619); this body included representatives (men) elected by the colony's landowners. The purpose was to give landowners a voice in their own government. This is a form of self-government.
Plymouth, Massachusetts
- Came for religious reasons; wanted religious freedom
- Mayflower Compact: an agreement made by the Pilgrims to govern themselves and make just laws as needed.
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Anne Hutchinson
- Purtian
- Shook up the conservative Massachusetts Bay Colony by challenging the men in charge.
- accused them of not following Puritan teachings
- banish from the colony
- important to religious freedom
John Smith
- 1st governor in the colonies at Jamestown, Virginia
- helped to create the first law-making assembly (House of Burgesses)
- improved the colonists relationship with the Powhatan indians
Roger Williams
- wanted religious freedom for all colonists
- created colony of Rhode Island where any religion could practice the way they wanted to without persecution
- Anne Hutchinson moved to the colony of Rhode Island for religious freedom
Triangular Trade Route
- trade routes between Africa, the Americas, and Europe, in which ships carried cash crops, manufactured goods, and enslaved people.
- Middle Passage: the part of the triangular trade route in which captured and enslaved Africans were sent by ship, under terrible conditions, to be sold in the Americas.
- Exported (sent from the 13 colonies to England & Europe) sugar, cotton, and tobacco.
- Imported (products brought into the 13 colonies) molasses, textiles and slaves from England and Africa.
Indentured Servants vs. Slaves
- Indentured servants: a person who agrees to work for a set period of time without pay in exchange for necessities such as transportation, food, clothing, and shelter.
- Slaves: forced to work without pay for life; seen as property
Geography and Climate
Products of the 13 Colonies
13 Colonies
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