Colonization of America's 13 Colonies

A system in which goods and people were traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa

• tariff

• mercantilism

• triangular trade

colony run by businessmen to whom land was granted

• royal

• proprietary

• self-governing

A tax on imported goods

• naval store

• export

• tariff

A voyage that brought enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to North America and the West Indies

• First Passage

• Middle Passage

• Last Passage

Why was the Great Wagon Road so significant?

• It was a way for people to settle the back-country regions of the colonies

• It was a way to settle the east coast

• It was a way to settle Florida

to send to another country for sale

• export

• import

• tariff

A rugged trail through the Middle and Southern colonial regions which Europeans used to migrate to the back-country regions

• Middle Passage

• NC Highway Road

• Great Wagon Road

colony under the direct control of the English crown

• royal

• proprietary

• self-governing

an economic policy forcing the English colonies to trade with their mother country (England)

• socialism

• mercantilism

• capitalism

An area distinguished by a unique combination of characteristic or features

• region

• colony

• charter