________ (alfalfa, clover, beans, peas) fix nitrogen into soil + helped restore it.
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Proprietors
The owner of a business, or a holder of property
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Coastal Plain
Flat, low-lying land adjacent to a sea coast
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Slave ships
________ had very bad conditions + high death rate among slaves.
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African slave
Trading in the ________ market resulted in traffic across Atlantic Ocean.
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New England merchants
________ built ships with lumber.
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1700
Settlements mostly concentrated in middle colonies + New England
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1614
Southern colonies committed to cash crops (tobacco, sugar, indigo, rice)
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1632
Provided licenses to transport African slaves
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1717
Migrated to + welcomed into American colonies
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1737
Publishes book during 1st Great Awakening
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Exclusionary
Only British ships + no foreign competition
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Geographical Mobility
The measure of how populations and goods move over time
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Social Mobility
Movement of individuals, families, or groups through a system of social hierarchy or stratification
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Demographics
Statistical data relating to the population and particular groups within it
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Capital
Assets available for use in the production of further assets
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Diversified Economy
Shifting an economy away from a single income source toward multiple sources from a growing range of sectors
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Cash-Crop Economy
Agricultural crops that are planted for the purpose of selling on the market or for export to make profit
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Triangular Trade
Shipping goods from Britain to West Africa to be exchanged for slaves, these slaves being shipped to the West Indies and exchanged for sugar, rum, and other commodities which were in turn shipped back to Britain
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Soil Depletion
When the components which contribute to fertility are removed and not replaced, and the conditions which support soil's fertility are not maintained
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Franchise
The right to vote
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Anglican Church
The primary state church in England, where the concepts of church and state are linked
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High Church vs. Low Church
Leaders of a High Church congregation place a “high” emphasis on ceremony, vestments, and sacraments. Leaders of a Low Church congregation place a “low” emphasis on such things and follow a freer worship style.
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Acts of Toleration
Act of Parliament granting freedom of worship to Nonconformists (i.e., dissenting Protestants such as Baptists and Congregationalists)
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Half-Way Covenant
Allowed the children of baptized but unconverted church members to be baptized and thus become church members and have political rights
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Scots-Irish
American descendants of Ulster Protestants who emigrated from Ulster in northern Ireland to America
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First Great Awakening
A series of Christian revivals that swept Britain and its thirteen North American colonies in the 1730s and 1740s
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Jonathan Edwards
Wrote numerous sermons, books, and pamphlets that helped start the religious revival known as the Great Awakening
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George Whitefield
An Anglican cleric and evangelist who was one of the founders of Methodism and the evangelical movement
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