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25 Cards in this Set
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what are the four major cities?
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NYC, Boston, Charleston, Philly
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what is the south's main economy
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cash crops and plantations
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what are the middle colonies main economy?
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bread colonies
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What is New England's main economy?
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Fishing and Ship Building
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when was the first english colony settled, and what was it?
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Jamestown COlony of Virginia- 1607
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Roanoke Colony
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a lost colony that mysteriously vanished. attemped colony by the english
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Virginia Dare
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First english baby born in the "new World"
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Charter
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a written agreement guaranteeing the rights and privleges of subjects in a state or country
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mercantilism
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making money for the mother country
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What are the four freedom documets?
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Mayflower Compact (mass), fundamental order of CT (CT), Toleration Act of 1649 (maryland), and Exetor COmpact (New Hampshire)
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Fundamental Order of Ct
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1st elaborate documentt of freddom guaranteeing certain rights to the CT colonists
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Mayflower Compact
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a freeedom document written by the pilgrims atating lawas and rules to live by
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pilgrims
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102 english people who came to the New World, on the mayflower
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plymouth colony
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1st new england colony settled in 1620 by pilgrims
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massachusetts bay colony
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settlement by puritans in BOston, and all of mass. and maine
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puritans
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english reforming protestants (mostly strict calvonists) who began mass, bay colony
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Plantation system
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large farm growing one crop, worked by slaves
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cash crops
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$ maling crop grown in large quanities
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squanto
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native american who taught pilgrims how to plant, associated with 1st thanksgiving
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naval stores
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goods produced to build ships : timber, pitch, and turpentine
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indigo
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plant that produces purple dye used in making clothing
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indentured servant
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servants who worked for 7 years on a plantation to earn passage to america
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mason dixon line
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borderline between PA< MD< AND DE to settle boundary dispute- line separating N and S in civil war
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toleration act of 1649
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maryland, allowing protestants and RC's to both have rights
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Quakers
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pacifists, simple in dress, no formal creed, no church, no formal bible, mett in metting houses, abolitionists, accept all people, humanitarians, reject organized churches, no clergy
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