developed an economy based on shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, small-scale subsistence
farming, and eventually, manufacturing (includes ME, Mass, Conn, RI, NH) - ANS-New England
(Northern) colonies
developed economies based on shipbuilding, small-scale farming, and trading (include NY, NJ,
PA, DE) most tolerate! - ANS-Middle Colonies
developed economies in the eastern coastal lowlands based on large plantations that grew cash
crops (include MD, VA, NC, SC, GA) - ANS-Southern Colonies
crops grown to sell on a large scale, such as tobacco, rice, and indigo for export to Europe -
ANS-cash crops
area in Virginia where the economy was based on small-scale subsistence agriculture -
ANS-Appalachian Foothills
an economy that relies chiefly on market forces to allocate goods and resources and to
determine prices - ANS-free enterprise
formed the basis of New England's social system - ANS-religious standing
people who disagree with official religious or political opinions, Puritans in New England grew
increasingly intolerant of them - ANS-dissenters
founded by dissenters fleeing persecution in Massaschusetts - ANS-Rhode Island
religious group who settled Pennsylvania - very tolerant and nonviolent - ANS-Quakers
French Protestants who settled in New York - ANS-Huguenots
skilled workers who make goods by hand, lived predominately in the Middle Colonies -
ANS-artisans
business owners, settled in the Middle Colonies - ANS-entrepreneurs
A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England. They came to America for
religious freedom and settled Massachusetts Bay. - ANS-Puritans
a settlement based on a written set of rules that all members agree to obey (can be based on
religion) *The Mayflower Compact for the Plymouth colony - ANS-covenant community