Middle Colonies Vocabulary

Members of the religious society of friends

• Religious Freedom

• Separatists

• Quakers

• Catholics

The study of the production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services

• Economics

• Plantations

• Specializations

• Human Resources

Materials of nature, such as, trees or water, that people use

• Natural Resources

• Human Resources

When people make the goods they are best able to produce with resources available to them

• Imports

• Specialization

• Economics

• Smuggling

A good brought in to one country from another

• import

• export

To import goods illegally

• import

• export

• smuggling

A product sent to anther country to be sold

• import

• export

• smuggling

People and the skills and knowledge they bring to their work

• Human resources

• Specialization

• Natural Resources

• Economics

Laws that restricted trade between England and the colonies

• Smuggling

• Navigation Acts

• Legislation

• Quakers