Voyage of Africans across the Atlantic Ocean to be sold as slaves in North and South America and the West Indies. Middle Passage

Crops grown mainly to be sold for profits Cash crops

Items that a country sells to other countries. exports

Creating and maintaining wealth by carefully controlling trade mercantilism

Pattern of trade that involved the American colonies, England, and West Africa. Triangular trade

Crops that are continuously in demand. Staple crops

Owners of a colony who control its government proprietors

Protestant group made up of people who wanted to reform the Church of England Puritans

Document written by the Pilgrims that established general guidelines for self-government Mayflower Compact

People who disagree with official religious or political opinions dissenters

Members of a Puritan Separatist sect that left England in the early 1600’s to settle in the Americas Pilgrims

Group of people who developed their own churches and cut all ties with the Church of England Separatists

People who have left the country of their birth to live in another country immigrants

Mass movement of English men, women, and children out of England between 1630 and 1640 Great Migration

Attack led by Nathaniel Bacon against American Indians and the Colonial government in Virginia. Bacon’s Rebellion