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30 Cards in this Set
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Wilderness
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A wild and unsettled land
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meeting house
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The most important building in a Puritan Village. Used for all kinds of community activities, from school to church
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self-sufficient
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Able to provide for all of their own needs.
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banish
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force to leave
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magistrates
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Led the government, made laws dealing with town affairs and people's relations with one another
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dissenters
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people who disagree with the views of their leaders.
Examples: Anne Hutchinson from Boston Roger Williams from Massachusetts |
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Wampum
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A Native American form of money -- made from polished shells that were put onto strings
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import
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items bought from distant places. New Englanders imported coffee, tea, sugar, and ready-made goods like ribbons and guns
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triangular trade
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Trade routes between Africa, Europe, and North America that formed a triangle.
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Middle Passage
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The trip of enslaved Africans across the Atlantic Ocean.
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industry
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business to make or sell a product or service
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shipyards
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places where ships are built and repaired
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Piedmont
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A region of rolling hills through which ran fast-moving rivers down from the Appalachian Mountains
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fall line
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A line of waterfalls up and down the East Coast
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proprietor
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Single owner of large blocks of land
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religious toleration
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freedom of everyone to practice their religions as they wanted to
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"holy experiment"
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William Penn's colony which was governed according to Quaker beliefs, where all religions could be practiced freely.
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yeoman
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self-sufficient farmers who owned their own land
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back country
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The unsettled, or wilderness part of each colony, usually beyond the fall line.
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subsistence
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Farmers raised just enough wheat or corn to feed themselves
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apprentice
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a person who works with an older, experienced person to learn a skill.
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tidewater
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A costal area that has rivers which are affected by ocean tides.
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cash crops
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crops grown just to be sold
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exports
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goods shipped to other countries to be sold
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House of Burgesses
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Created by the colony of Virginia to make laws for the colony.
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representative
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a person who speaks for other people, also a burgess
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debtors
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poor people, or people who owed money
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trustees
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managers for the colony
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post road
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a route used by the postal service to deliver mail
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Profit
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extra money available after all expenses have been paid
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