1. Culture of the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies
Chapter 6 Vocabulary
Culture of the New England, Middle and Southern Colonies

2. Indentured Servant Contract
Person who will work for a period of time to get passage to America.

3. Tobacco the cash crop of Virginia and North Carolina
Something grown for the purpose of making money

4. Mercantilism A policy were countries gain wealth by trade
England factories received raw materials from the colonies. Finished goods were sold around the world.

5. Middle Passage
People were captured in Africa and sent to new world plantations.
The route between Africa and America, used to transport slaves.

6. Frontier A thinly settled area on the outer limits of the colony
Daniel Boone leading settlers through the Cumberland Gap.

7. Social Mobility Moving from one social class to another.
Benjamin Franklin was an apprentice printer to his brother as a teenager. He became a successful newspaper publisher, inventor and politician.

8. An individual who owns the colony
Proprietor
An individual who owns the colony
James Oglethorpe proprietor of Georgia
Cecil Calvert (Lord Baltimore) proprietor of Maryland

9. Rural
Outside the city, mostly farms.
Pennsylvania Farm

10. Subsistence Farming Growing enough crops to support a family
By William M. Connolley at en.wikipedia - Taken by authorTransfered from en.wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0,
Growing enough crops to support a family

11. Relating to that within a city.
Urban
Philadelphia
Relating to that within a city.

12. Craft Worker Artisan Paul Revere was a Silversmith
Gunsmith at Williamsburg Virginia
Paul Revere was a Silversmith

13. A trainee to a master craftsman. Apprentice cobbler(shoemaker)
Master furniture craftsman and his apprentices
A trainee to a master craftsman.
Apprentice cobbler(shoemaker)

14. Puritan Minister Cotton Mathers of Massachusetts
By Peter Pelham, artist - Public Domain,
Those who want to reform or purify the Anglican Church.

15. Conestoga Wagon
Curved Floorbed prevented merchandise from falling out.
Improved vehicle for transporting goods created by the Pennsylvania Dutch

16. A day of prayer and rest (Sunday).
Sabbath
Pilgrim leaders John Carver, William Bradford, and Miles Standish reading the Bible.
By Robert W. Weir (photograph courtesy Architect of the Capitol) - Architect of the Capitol, Public Domain,
A day of prayer and rest (Sunday).

17. New England Primer (America’s first school book)
Dame School
Homeschooling for girls in New England.
New England Primer (America’s first school book)