Mercantilism, economic system linking colonies and mother country, Southern Colonies, Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Jamestown, first permanent English settlement in North America, 1607, year Jamestown was established, Virginia Company of London, founded Jamestown as a business venture, Cavaliers, English nobility given large Virginia land grants, Indentured servants, worked for passage or debt relief, House of Burgesses, first elected assembly in the New World, 1619, first representative government meeting in Virginia, Maryland, founded as a haven for Catholics, Cash crops, tobacco, rice, and indigo, Tidewater, eastern coastal lowlands of the South, Old Point Comfort, site where first Africans arrived in Virginia, Middle Passage, forced voyage of Africans to the New World, John Punch, 1640 case that helped legalize lifelong slavery, Virginia Slave Codes, 1705 laws restricting enslaved people and free Blacks, New England Colonies, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, New Hampshire, Connecticut, Puritans, settled New England seeking religious freedom, Separatists, Puritan group that settled Plymouth in 1620, Mayflower Compact, agreement to obey laws for common good, Town meetings, New England form of direct democracy, New England economy, shipbuilding, fishing, lumbering, subsistence farming, manufacturing, Rhode Island, founded by dissenters fleeing Massachusetts, Middle Colonies, New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Middle Colony settlers, English, Dutch, and German-speaking immigrants, Middle Colony economy, shipbuilding, small farming, and trade, Religious tolerance, common belief among many middle colony groups, Great Awakening, religious revival movement of the mid-1700s

Unit 1 - Colonization

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