13 Colonies Study Guide

Pilgrim

Colonists that arrived in North America on the boat named "Mayflower"

to persecute

to mistreat a person or group on the basis of their beliefs

colony

An area outside of a country that is ruled by that country.

religious freedom

The right to practice your religion and change your religion

starvation

Suffering from extreme hunger

to govern

to lead or be in charge of

self-government

a government that gets power from the people it governs

merchant

people who buy and sell things

mercantilism

a way nations earned a lot of money. Mother country uses resources of colonies to sell manufactured things to the colonies.

slave trade

The business of buying and selling enslaved people

England was was developed society. It had a lot of nice things. Merchants in England _ things to different parts of the world.

sold

The colonies were not developed. At first, they did not have nice things. They DID have a lot of natural resources. Merchants in the colonies sold __ to merchants in England.

natural resources

The 13 colonies have gold and silver. They did not send these to England.

did not

Manufactured goods are that someone made.

nice things (tea, furniture, silverware, clothes)

English colonists like the Pilgrims and Puritans came to the colonies to get .

religious freedom

Poor came to the colonies to get free land.

farmers

Some people came to the early colonies to find . They did not find any.

gold and silver

In mercantilism, English sold manufactured goods to the colonies.

merchants

In mercantilism, merchants in the _ sold natural resources to England.

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