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97 Cards in this Set
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This is the year when recorded history began
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4000 BC
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This is how long ago the Western World began
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6000 years ago
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This is how long ago Europeans discovered the Americas
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500 years ago
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What allowed for agricultural societies to form in Mexico and the Americas
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domestication of corn
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Where the Mayans established their empire
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Peru
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What talents did the Native Americans have?
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they were grat astronomers and mathematicians
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Why were the Pueoblo people of america less sophisticated than souther civilizations?
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corn reached them much later
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Who commissioned the first discover of America, before the Europeans
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the Norse of Scandinavia
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Wh initiated the need for exploration in Renaissance Europe? Why?
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the Crusaders, because in their crusades they developed a taste for exotic goods from Asia. needed to find better passage to get there
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The Indies
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Asia
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This European civilization made innovative ships
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Portuguese
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This was one of the first things to make slave trade huge
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the Portuguese made ships which could sail down the western coast of Africa for the first time
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Who was the first to sail around the tip of Africa to India?
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Vasco da Gama
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When did Columbus first sight America, and where did he land? (exact date)
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October 12, 1492
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Europeans brought these foods and animals with them to the New World (7)
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wheat, sugar, rice, coffee, horses, cows, pigs
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Europeans took these goods back to Europe from the New World (10)
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corn, potatoes, pineapples, tomatoes, tobacco, beans, vanilla, chocolate, gold, silver
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Europeans infected natives with these diseases (7)
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smallpox, measles, bubonic plague, influenza, typhus, diphtheria, and scarlet fever.
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Why did the Spanish venture to the new world?
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gain wealth and gold and spread Christianity
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who crushed the Incans?
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Francisco Pizarro
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who crushed the Aztecs?
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Hernán Cortés
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encomienda
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the Spanish could take Indians as slaves if they promised to convert them to Christianity
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Why did colonization begin in England?
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Queen Elizabeth came to the throne
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when did Raleigh land at Roanoke?
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1585
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Roanoke was in modern-day ______ and off the coast of _______
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North Carolina, Virginia
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Which king of Spain created the "Invincible Armada"?
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King Philip II
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Protestant Wind
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The Protestants of England defeated the "Invincible Armada" when they came up the English Channel
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This is when England became more powerful than Spain
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1588
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This is when Jamestown was established
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1606
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This company gave a charter to Jamestown, and under this king
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the Virginia Company of London, James I
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Three Ships that sailed to Jamestown
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Susan Constant, God Speed, Discovery
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This is why Jamestown was founded
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So the Virginia Company could "strike it rich"
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Jamestown is in _____ on the ____ River
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Virginia, James
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Why did the men of Jamestown not hunt or fish?
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They were considered "gentlemen" and couldn't be bothered with this. They only wanted gold
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How did John Smith save Jamestown and how?
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"He who shall not work shall not eat"
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What tribe captured John Smith?
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The Powhatans
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Starving time of Jamestown?
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1609-1610
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Lord Da La Warr arrived from England in Jamestown and issued a declaration of war from the Virginia Company. Ended in John Rolfe and Pochahontas marriage
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First Anglo-Powhatan War
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The Indians last atmept to remove the Virginians
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Second Anglo-Powhatan War
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What did the Powhatans fall to ?
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Three D's: Disease, disorganization, disposability
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The only early substantially powerful Indian tribes in the Great Lakes Region
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Algonquians
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Who introduced tobacco to Jamestown?
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John Rolfe
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This is the year a Dutch ship arrived with African Slaves and the year the _________, a form a self government in Virginia, was created. (Also, what colony?)
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1619, House of Burgesses, Jamestown
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What made Virginia a royal colony
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James I, who hated tobacco, made it a royal colony
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Who founded Maryland? What religion were they?
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Lord Baltimiore, Catholic
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Maryland's religious policy
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Act of Toleration, all Christians were tolerated. If you didn't believe in the divinity of Jesus, you were executed
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Why was sugar a rich man's crop?
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It required much to grow and cell it, unlike tobacco
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In the Caribbean, what was the ratio of blacks to whites?
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4:1
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Which slave code denied even the most fundamental rights to slaves? Where was it later implemented?
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-the Barbados Slave Code
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How was Carolina created?
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King Charles II granted land to Lord Proprietors after the Restoration Period
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Which colony exported Indians as slaves?
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Carolina
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What was the main export of Carolina?
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rice
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Why did North Carolina separate from Carolina?
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Its poorer farmers wanted to escape from aristocratic southern Carolina and Virginia.
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How many years after the last colony was Georgia founded?
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52
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What was Georgia a "buffer" against?
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Spanish Florida and French Louisiana
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Who created Georgia, what was he, and why did he offer to do it?
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James Oglethrope, he was a warrior statesmen, and he was a philanthropist
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Besides being a buffer, what was Georgia for?
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it was a haven for imprisoned debtors who now got to work their own land?
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Which southern colony didn't develop slavery until much later, and why?
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Georgia, because the weather and restrictions on slavery prevented the growth of plantations. Also, "buffering" didn't allow this to occur.
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Religious policy, Georgia?
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toleration for all but catholics
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This is when Martin Luther nailed his protests to a Catholic church in Germany
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1517
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This is when John Calvin publishes his book, ____________
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1536, Institutes of the Christian Religion
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What religion were the pilgrims?
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seperatists puritans
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When did the mayflower set sail for Plymouth? (Full date)
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September 6, 1620
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When was the mayflower contract signed (full date)
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November II, 1620
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Who were the Wamanoags?
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The Indian tribe who helped the Pilgrims during the first thanksgiving.
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What religious group went to Mass. Bay?
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Protestant Puritans
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Mass. Bay's Constitution?
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They stole their charter and used it as a constitution.
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Which colony brought with them the most initial immigrants? How many?
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Mass. Bay / 1,000
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Who was the first governor of Mass. Bay?
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John Winthrop
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Mass Bay exported these two things mostly
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fish and ships
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"We shall be a city upon a hill", a beacon of light
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Mass. Bay Colony and Boston
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He had a covenant with God
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John Winthrop, founding of Mass Bay
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the church in Mass Bay
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Puritan Congregationalist Church
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Mass. Bay Government
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churchgoers could vote in provincial elections. John Winthrop didn't like democracy. Men elected only the governor and the General court
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Blue laws
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laws limiting human instinct created in Mass Bay
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Anne Hutchinson
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sent from Mass. Bay when she claimed antinomianism.
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When was RI established?
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1636
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Who rounded rhode island?
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roger williams
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antinomianism
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the saved need not obey God's laws or government laws because of predestination
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When, where, what: Fundamental Orders
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1639, Hartford CT, like a constitution
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Maine was created when
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Mass Bay bought it
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New Hampshire was created when this happened
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Charles Ii took it away from Mass Bay and made it royal
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When was the New England Confederation formed, and who was in it?
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1643, Mass Bay, New Haven and Connecticut, Plymouth,
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What was the Dominion of New England?
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Created by England by Charles II which administered Navigation laws and put restrictions on government
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He was head of Dominion of New England
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Sir Edmund Andros
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What king and queen were a part of the glorious revolution?
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William III and Mary
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In New Netherlands, how was the land distributed?
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Vast feudal estates were granted to promoters who agreed to settle fifty people.
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When did the Quakers arise in England?
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mid-1600s
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The Quakers, aka
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Religious Society of Friends
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Why did English government dislike Quakers?
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Wouldn't pay taxes for churchs, spoke to everyone (even officials) like children of God, Would not right in the military
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When did Penn launch his colony?
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1681
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Government in Pennsylvania?
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representative assembly elected by landowners
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What colonies had "blue law"?
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Mass Bay and Pennsylvania
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How was NJ founded?
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Quakers bought the land from proprietors who had received the land from the duke of york
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Middle colonies impl
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-fertile land (bread colonies
-fur trade -seaports -gov.between southern and northern kinds -mixed population -religious tolerance -easy land access |
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Middle Colonies
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New Jersey, New York, Pennsylvania, Deleware
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Southern Colonies
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Virginia, Maryland, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
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North Colonies
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New Hampshire Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island,
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