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The name given to Puritan churches
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Meetinghouse
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Credit slips used by New England and English merchants
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Bills of Exchange
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Skilled workers who manufactured various goods
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Artisans
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A three-way trade established by New England merchants
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Triangular Trade
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The wealthy landowners in the South
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Gentry
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Crop grown primarily for market
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Cash Crop
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Person who agreed to work for an employer in the colonies in exchange for passage to America
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Indentured Servant
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Large commercial estates where many workers lived on the land and cultivated the crops for the landowners
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Plantations
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System of farming in which farmers produce only enough crops to feed themselves and their families
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Subsistence Farming
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A set of laws that formally regulated slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people
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Slave Code
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A movement that challenged the authority of the church in science and philosophy while elevating the power of human reason
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Enlightenment
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A movement that stressed an individual’s devoutness and an emotional union with God
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Pietism
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A Puritan leader who helped inoculate Bostonians against smallpox
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Cotton Mather
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A religious movement that stressed dependence on God and gained appeal among farmers, workers, and enslaved people
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Great Awakening
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A set of ideas about the world economy and how it works
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Mercantilism
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An emphasis on logic and reasoning
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Rationalism
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One of the earliest and most influential Enlightenment writers
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John Locke
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Political philosopher who believed in separation of powers in government
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Montesquieu
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Large public meetings for preaching and prayer
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Revivals
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The bloodless change of power that occurred in England when William and Mary became the monarchs
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Glorious Revolution
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In the early 1700’s the size of plantations began to increase as wealthier planters in Virginia and Maryland switched from using indentured servants to this type of labor
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Slave Labor; Enslaved Africans
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Bacon’s Rebellion convinced many wealthy planters that the best way to keep Virginian society stable was to have land available in this location
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Backcountry
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What was used to power New England sawmills?
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Waterfalls
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To Puritans, “Holy Watching” meant watching over this for your neighbor?
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Watching over your neighbor's behavior
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These people were at the top of colonial New England’s urban society
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Wealthy merchants
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Enlightenment thinkers emphasized these two things.
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Logic and Reasoning
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Africans were welcome at revivals sponsored by this religious group
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Baptists
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What did the Virginia slave code did regulate?
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Slavery and defined the relationship between enslaved Africans and free people
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The rise of trade in New England led to a rise in this
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Cities along the coast
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Mercantilists believed that to become wealthy and powerful, a country had to accumulate this
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Gold and Silver
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Philosopher John Locke asserted that all people were born with certain natural rights, including the right to these three things
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Life, Liberty, and Property (poverty)
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What did ministers call the religious gatherings held during the Great Awaking?
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Revivals
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Many Southern backcountry farmers practiced this type of farming, growing only enough crops to feed their own families
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Subsistence Farming
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In the colonial period, this was a shallow region off the Northeast coast of New England, teemed with fish
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Grand Banks
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The movement of enslaved Africans to America became known as this
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Middle Passage
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King James II offended many people in England by openly practicing this religion
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Catholicism
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Reverend Cotton Mather, drawing on the knowledge of enslaved Africans, instructed a physician in a new method for inoculating people against this disease
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Small Pox
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This crop was grown and used to make blue dye for cloth
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Indigo
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This crop required intensive manual labor to grow
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Tobacco
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Enslaved Africans were brought to South Carolina to cultivate a new type of this crop.
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Rice
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A subsistence crop for farmers of New England and the Southern backcountry
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Corn
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This crop was dried to feed livestock during the New England winters
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Apples
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This industry brought prosperity to New England
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Whaling; Fishing
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This fish (mammal) was used to make candles, perfume, and buttons
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Whales
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The main cash crop of the Middle Colonies
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Wheat
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