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78 Cards in this Set
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Gentry
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wealthy planters, merchants, and other successful people in the colonies, the top of the social classes
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indentured servants
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signed contracts to work without wages for a period of 4 to 7 years
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jonathan Edwards
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new england minister that helped start the great awakening
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great awakening
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religous movement in the English colonies in the early 1700's
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apprentice
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person who learns a trade or craft from a master
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enlightenment
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movement in Europe in the 1600's and 1700's that emphasized the use of reason
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george Witefield
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english minister who helped spread that great awakening in America
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Benjamin Franklin
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American thinker, inventor, and statesman who was an example of the Enlightenment spirit
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John Peter Zenger
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was a newspaper publisher who trial for libel strengthened the idea of freedom of the press
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libel
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act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person reputation
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middle class
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in the 13 colonies, a class that included skilled craft workers, farmers, and some trades people
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gullah
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combination of English and West african languages spoken by the African americans in the South Carolina colony
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dame school
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school that is run by woman in their homes
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William Penn
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founded pennsylvania colony in 1681
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Peter stuyvestant
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govenor of New Netherlands and swore to defend city
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sabbath
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Puritans took their holy day of rest seriously
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Puritans
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a religious group that led the migration to Massachusetts Bay during the 1630s
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Charles I
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he became king of England in 1625, disapproved of the Puritan ideas, canceled Puritan business charters, and put a few in jail
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King philip
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chief of local wampanoags indians, waged a war against settlers in Massachusetts Bay Colony, destroying 12 towns and 600 settlers
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Roger Williams
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challenged leaders of Mass. BAy colony, and as a result was banned from colony, then he left the colony and built a new settlement
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Boston
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founded by John Winthrop in 1630
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General court
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an assembly in Mass. Bay colony, where Puritan members elected representives
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John Winthrop
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a lawyer and devout Puritan who became the first governor of Mass. Bay Colony
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Great migration
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over 15,000 people jouryned to mass. Bay colony form england from 1629 to 1640
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the common
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a place with an open field where settlers cattle could graze, one at enter of each village in Mass. bay colony
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james I
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king of england
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Hartford
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Where roger williams built a town along the banks of the Conneticut rver
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Fundamental orders of connecticut
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created a governement in Conn. which is different from Mass. Bay colony
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religious tolerance
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willingness to let others practice their own religion
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meeting house
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a building where public meeting are
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town meetings
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where settlers discussed and voted on many issues: What roads should be built?, How much a schoolmaster should be paid?
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pilgrims
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in the 1600s, english settlers who sought religious freedom in the Americas
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providence
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capital of Rhode island, Roger Williams built a new settlement and called it this, this was the beginning of the colony of Rhode island
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Thomas Hoocker
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founder of Hartford, Connecticut in 1636
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duke of york
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King Charles II of England gave New Netherlands to him and then he named it New york
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THe "holy experiment"
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What penn thought of his colony as, wanted it to be a model of religious freedom , peace, and christian living
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Philadelphia
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spreads through delaware river
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the great train wagon
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The Iroquois trail
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partroon
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owners of huge estates
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proprietary colony
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the gave land to one or more people in return for a yearly payement
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royal colony
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in 1702, new jersey became a royal colony , which is a colony under direct control of english crown
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quakers
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one of the most despised religious groups in England
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Pennsylvania Dutch
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German speaking Protestants , were named this because people could not pronounce the word deuysch
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cash crop
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crops that are sold for money at market
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Mason Dixon line
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formed boundaries between Pennsylvania and Maryland
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Sir george calvert
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planned to build a colony, naming it maryland, where catholics could practice their religion freely, when he died his son lord baltimore had to complete the project
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lord baltimore
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sir george calverts son, completed job for his dad when he died
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chesapeake bay
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in 1634, about 200 colonists landed along the upper shores, across from Virginia colony
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act of tolerance
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was a law passes by the maryland colonial government providing religious freedom to all christians
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nathaniel bacon
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angry over the Virginia govenors lack of action aginaist, Indian attacks on settlers led his followers to Jamestown and burned the capital
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indigo
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a cash crop plant used to make valuable blue dye
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james oglethrope
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in 1732 founded the colony of georgia as a place where debtors could make a fresh start
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debtors
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people who owed money but could not pay it off, James oglethrope made a colony where they could go
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back country farms
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southern planters build bery large farms, and employed from 20-200 slaves on this land close to the ocean shores
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middle passage
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referred to the route taken by slave ships traveling west across that atlantic ocean
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slave codes
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where laws were passes in the southern colonies which denied slaves their basic rights
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racism
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the belief that one race is more superior than the other
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bacons rebellion
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a 1676 raid led by nathaniel bacon against the governor and native americans in Virginia
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savannh river
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river that flows along the border of Georgia and south Carolina
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triangluar trade
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colonial trade route between New England, the west indies, and africa
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tidewater plantations
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20 to 100 slaves worked on the fields, some where skilled workers, some craftsmen
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proclamation of 1763
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law forbidding english colonist to settle west of the Appalachian Mountains
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proprietors
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owners of buisnesses
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navigation acts
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series of ENglish laws in the 1650s that regulated trade between England and its colonies
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indentured servants
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person who agreed to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for passage to the colonies
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charles town
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quaker rebellion
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holy commonwealth
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econmiendas
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land granted to spanish settlers that included the rights or demand labor or taxes for native americans
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benjamin franklin
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is an inventor, scientist, his many inventions have helped us out so much in today world
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subsistence farming
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self- sufficiency farming in which farmers grow only enough food to feed their families
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john campbell
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Anne hutchinson
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purian who questioned minister teaching
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metacom
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also known as king philip, was a chief of wampanoag indians
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export
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good sent to markets outside of country
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import
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goods that come to makets of country
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bill of rights
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written lists of freedoms that the government promises to protect
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legislature
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a group of people who had the power to make laws, every colony has one
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