The English Colonies

Chapter 4 Test Review

Key Terms

• Immigrants– People who leave their homeland and move to a new country

• Headright system – Gave 50 acres of land to colonists who paid their way to the “New”

world• Indentured servants

– Agreed to work in exchange for passage to America• Puritans

– Protestant group that wanted to reform the Church of England• Separatists

– Protestant groups that cut all ties (SEPARATE) with the Church of England

Key Terms

• proprietors– Owners of a colony who controlled the government

• Covenant – Sacred agreement made with God

• Mayflower Compact– Document creating a new political society signed by the Pilgrims

• Quaker– Protestant group that believed that all people had inner goodness

• William Penn– Quaker leader who established a colony…PENNSYLVANIA

Life in the English Colonies

Chapter 5 Test Review

Key Terms

• Bicameral legislature– Lawmaking body made up of two (bi) houses

• libel– False written statement that damages a person’s reputation

• Mercantilism – creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade

• Triangular trade – Pattern of transporting products among the colonies, West

Indies, Britain, and West Africa • Cash crops

– Crops grown mainly to be sold for profit

Key Terms

• Scientific Method– Carefully examining natural events and forming theories from

experiments and observations• revival

– Public church gathering to hear a minister’s message • Charles Chauncy

– Disagreed with the Great Awakening as a way to gain salvation• Staple crops

– Crops that are continuously in demand• Benjamin Banneker

– Free African American astronomer and surveyor