Key Vocabulary for

Module 3, Lesson 1:

Settlement of the Thirteen Colonies

Review these important vocabulary terms as you prepare to learn about Colonial America.

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Pilgrims

People who were on a “religious journey” to America... in order to flee religious persecution

Puritans

A group of Protestants that arose out of the Church of England who wanted to “purify” the Church and believed in a greater strictness of religious discipline

religious dissenters

Those who spoke out against the teachings of the church

diversity

This word means, “many differences.” (religious diversity, ethnic diversity, etc)

Quakers

The religious group that settled Pennsylvania – they opposed war and fighting

pacifists

People, like the Quakers, who do not like war or fighting…therefore they were known as pacifists.

Catholics

The religious group that settled in Maryland

mercantilism

The idea that a nation should export more than it imports and become wealthy and more powerful

cash crops

Crops that were grown in the New World in order to make lots of “cash!” (like tobacco, rice, etc.)

Native Americans

The native inhabitants of North America

Jamestown (Virginia)

The first permanent English settlement in North America

plantation system

The economic system of the Southern Colonies…based on large scale farming and the use of slaves

indentured servants

People who exchanged a promise for a number of years work in order to get passage to America

triangular trade

The trade route that developed between the North American Colonies, England, and Africa

The Middle Passage

The terrible, cramped voyage of the slaves from Africa to the Colonies

Joint stock colony

Colonies that were settled by people who invested in hopes of earning a profit

proprietary colony

A colony controlled by one (or a small group) of owners

royal colony

A colony controlled entirely by the King

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