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75 Cards in this Set
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Sir George Calvert
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English politician and coloniser
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Lord Baltimore
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One of the founders of Maryland
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Chesapeake Bay
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Was and still is the largest estuary in the Americas
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St. Mary’s
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Maryland’s first town
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Margaret and Mary Brent
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Took up lands in Virginia, on the Northern Neck, gradually settling their estate with migrants from England
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Nathaniel Bacon
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He was a wealthy colonist of the Virginia Colony, famous as the instigator of Bacon’s Rebellion of 1676, which collapsed when Bacon himself died from dysentery
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Charles Town
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The largest colony in south Carolina.
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James Oglethorpe
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British general and was the founder of the Georgia colony.
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Savannah
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Grassland Ecosystem Characterized by the trees being sufficiently small or widely spaced so that the canopy does not close.
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The Tidewater
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Old inn in Maryland
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The Backcountry
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Geographical region that is hard to reach, isolated, remote and undeveloped.
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The Middle Passage
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Refers to the forcible passage of African People from Africa to the New World, as part of the Atlantic slave trade.
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Mason-Dixon Line
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It forms a demarcation line among four U.S. states, forming part of the borders of Pennsylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and West Virginia.
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Act of Toleration
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A law mandating religions tolerance for Trinitarian Christians.
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Bacon’s Rebellion
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An uprising in 1676 in the Virginia Colony, led by Nathaniel Bacon, a wealthy planter. It was the first rebellion in the American Colonies.
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Indigo
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A plant used to make a valuable blue dye.
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Debtor
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People who owed money they could not pay back, to make a fresh start
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Slave Code
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Treated African slaves not as human beings but as property.
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Racism
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The belief that one race is superior to another.
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Massachusetts bay colony
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A settlement based on biblical laws and teachings.
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John Winthrop
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A lawyer and devout Puritan
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Great Migration
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The movement of Puritans to the Massachusetts in 1629 to 1640
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Boston
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The major city where protestants migrated
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Thomas Hooker
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A puritan minister who led 100 settlers to the connecticut river where they formed the capital hartford. He formed connecticut.
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Hartford
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The capital of connecticut
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Roger williams
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A young puritan minister who believed the church had too much power. He was kicked out of Massachusetts and bought land from the indians and named it Rhode Island
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Anne Hutchinson
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A devout Puritan, but did not like the way things were run in the colony. She was sent to court because she did not believed she was questioned for 2 days and poked holes in their questions. After 2 days she said she talked with god and she was kicked out because god could only speak through the bible. She went to Rhode Island for Religious Freedom
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Metacom
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The native american name for King Phillip
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King Phillip
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English name for the chief of the wampanogs. He had almost all of his land taken from him.
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The Common
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An open place where the cattle grazed.
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Puritans
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Group of english protestants who settled in the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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General Court
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Elected representative assembly in the Massachusetts Bay colony
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Fundamental orders of Connecticur
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a 1639 plan of government in puritan colony connecticut
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Religious Tolerance
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Willingness to let others celebrate their own religion
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Sabbath
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Holy day of rest
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Town Meeting
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Meeting in Colonial New England where settlers discussed and voted on issues.
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William Penn
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Founded Pennsylvania
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Served as the last dutch director - general of the colony of new york
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The duke of york
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Founded New York
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The "holy experiment"
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was an attempt by the quakers to establish a community for themselves in pennsylvania
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Philadelphia
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Town in pennsylvania
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The great wagon road
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A colonial american through-fare transiting the great Appalachian valley from pennsylvania to north carolina
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Patroon
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a landholder with manorial rights to large tracts of land in the 17th century dutch colony of New York
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Proprietary Colony
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A proprietary colony is a colony in which one or more private land owners retain rights that are normally the privilege the state.
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Royal Colony
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A colony governed directly by a king or queen in other countries
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Quakers
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Someone who does not believe in violence and they were very peaceful people
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Pennsylvania Dutch
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The pennsylvania dutch are the descendants of germanic peoples who emigrated to the US from germany switzerland and the Low countries prior to 1800
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Cash Crop
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In agriculture, a cash crop is a crop which is grown for profit
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mercantilism
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belief in the benefits of profitable trading; commercialism
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Export
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send goods or services to another country for sale
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Import
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bring goods or services into another country from abroad for sale
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Navigation acts
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series of laws which restricted the use of foreign shipping for trade between england (after 1707 great britain) and its colonies, which started in 1651
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yankee
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nickname that implied that they were clever and hardworking people
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triangular trade
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a multilateral system of trading in which a country pays for its imports from one country by its exports in another
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legislature
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group of people who have the power to make laws
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Glorious revolution
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the glorious revolution was the overthrow of king james the third in england
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bill of rights
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a statement of the rights of a class of people in particular.
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english bill of rights
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protected the rights of individuals
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gentry
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the gentry were the top of the society and were planters and merchants and ministers
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middle class
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the middle class were farmers who worded their own land and made their own crafts
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indentured servant
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they were people who signed the contracts to work without wages for a period of four to seven years for anyone who would pay their ocean passage to the americas
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gullah
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in some areas african americans spoke a distinctive combination of english and west african languages known as gullah
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great awakening
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the great awakening was a religious movement that swept through the colonies
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public schools
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schools that are supported by taxes/ it allowed both rich and poor children to get an education
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tutor
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some planters engaged to tutors, or private teachers, the wealthiest planters sent their son to school in england
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apprentice
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boys whose parents wished them to learn a trade or craft served as apprentices
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Dame School
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Dame schools were schools that only accepted girls to attend there.
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Enlightment
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the light of human reasoning
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libel
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act of criticizing a persons religion
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Negro Election Day
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Truly american custom, blending traditions from africa and england
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Jonathan edwards
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helped set off the great awakening in powerful sermons, calling on young people to examine their lives
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George Whitefeild
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when an english minister named george whitefeild arrived in the colonies the movement spread like wild fire, he drew huge crowds to outdoor meetings. he was an enthusiastic and energetic preacher. his voice would ring with feelings as he called on sinners to repent.
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John Locke
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An english philosopher, wrote works that were widely read in the colonies, he said people could gain knowledge of the world by observing and experimenting
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Benjamin franklin
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franklin wanted to use reason to improve the world around him. he invented practical devices such as a lightning rod, a smokeless fireplace, and others
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Poor Richards Almanack
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franklins most popular publication, it contained useful information and clever quotes
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