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| The production of crops, livestock, or poultry. |
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The scientific study of historic or people and their cultures. |
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| A handmade object, as a tool, or the remains of one, as pottery, characteristic of an earlier time or cultural stage, especially such an object found at an archaeological excavation. |
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New York, New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania
The Middle colonies were not known for their farming as well as they were known for their mills and bread. On average in the Middle colonies, people ate about 1 pound of bread per day. The mills used to produce the bread was powered by rivers to crush the grains. This was very helpful if you wanted to live in the Middle colonies. The main foods you got out of these grains were pancakes, waffles, and pretzels. |
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| An agricultural crop which is grown for sale for profit |
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A group of people who leave their native country to form in a new land a settlement subject to, or connected with, the parent nation. |
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| A dramatically widespread exchange of animals, plants, culture, human populations, including slaves, diseases, and ideas between the American and Afro-Eurasian Hemispheres following the voyage to the Americas by Christopher Columbus in 1492. |
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| A government by the people; a form of government in which the supreme power is vested in the people and exercised directly by them or by their elected agents under a free electoral system. |
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Refers to the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Economics is most concerned with the use of limited raw materials (natural resources) for the production of goods.
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The Great Awakening was a period of great revivalism that spread throughout the colonies in the 1730s and 1740s. It deemphasized the importance of church doctrine and instead put a greater importance on the individual and their spiritual experience.
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| The House of Burgesses was the first assembly of elected representatives of English colonists in North America. |
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Indentured servitude was a form of debt bondage, established in the early years of the American colonies.
Farmers, planters, and shopkeepers in the colonies found it very difficult to hire free workers. A common solution was to transport a young worker from England, who would work for several years to pay off the debt of their travel costs. During the indenture period, the servants were not paid wages, but were provided with food, accommodation, clothing and training. The indenture document specified how many years the servant would be required to work, after which they would be free. |
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| not humane, lacking kindness or compassion |
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| A confederation of five Indian tribes across upper New York state that during the 17th and 18th centuries played a strategic role in the struggle between the French and British for mastery of North America. |
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| The first governing document of Plymouth Colony. |
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To go from one country, region, or place to another. |
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| One of the band of Puritans who founded the colony of Plymouth, Mass., in 1620. |
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A usually large farm or estate,
relating to the establishment of one of the a colonies. |
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first or highest in rank or importance; the most important
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Regulated by strict religious beliefs. Led a very strict religious lifestyle.
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| One of a group of 16th and 17th century English Protestants preferring to separate from, rather than to reform to the Church of England. |
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| The route between the New England colonies, Africa, and the West Indies. |
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| An English real estate entrepreneur, and founder of the Province of Pennsylvania, the English North American colony. He was an early champion of democracy religious freedom, notable for his good relations and successful treaties with the LenapeIndians. |
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| One of the many religious sects born in the 17th Century under the influence of Puritan thought. The foundation principle of the Reformation was the right of private judgment. They were people whose minds had so long been suppressed and terrorized that, once free, they rushed to extremes. They represented the return to the spirituality and the simplicity of the early Christians. |
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