Colonial America Vocabulary

a person who wanted to break away from the Church of England

• Separatist

• Loyalist

• Catholic

• Debtor

the act of focusing on making one or more products

• Differentiation

• Specialization

• Interdependence

• Factories

Different or a group that varies

• Diverse

• Uniform

• Middle

• Specialization

a large farm- hint the Southern Colonies had these

• Family Farms

• Plantations

• Urban Cities

• Habors

is a person who controlled the property in a colony

• Real-estate Agent

• Proprietor

• Artisan

• Merchant

a person who was put into prison for owing money

• Proprietor

• Indentured servant

• Debtor

• King

Two or more people or places depending on each other for goods and  services (Ex. Mid-Atlantic traded with the Southern and New England colonies to get the products they did not produce)

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• Independent

• Interdependence

• Specialization

• Merchant

1.    a crop that brought in cash, or money, for the farmer who grew it (Ex. Southern colonies grew tobacco )

• Cash Crop

• Debt Crop

• Specialization

• Interdependence

In colonial New England, a meeting where citizens of a town voted on laws and elected town leaders (Ex. New England’s civic life)

• Market Town

• City Meeting

• Town Meeting

• Colonial Governor's Meeting

- is a place where goods are bought and sold (Ex. Mid-Atlantic’s civic life)

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• Market Towns

• Plantations

• Debtors Colony