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32 Cards in this Set
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Great migration |
Movement of people between 1629 and 6040, 15,000 men, women, and children made the journey from England to Massachusetts |
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Apprentices |
Person who learns a trade or craft from a master |
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Debtors |
Person who owes money |
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Indentured servant |
Person who argued to work without wages for sometime in exchange for passage to the colonies |
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Proprietor |
Owner of a proprietary colony |
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Toleration |
Willingness to let others practice their own customs and beliefs |
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Town meetings |
Sessions in which citizens discuss and vote on local community issues |
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Common |
Open field where cattle grazed |
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Plantation |
Large estate farm by many works |
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Legislatures |
Group of people who have the power to make laws |
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English bill of rights |
Document guaranteeing the basic rights of English citizens |
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John Winthrop |
Back (Definition) A lawyer and a devout Christian, assured colonists that their new colony would set an example to the world. Colonized Massachusetts. |
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Roger Williams |
Young minister in the village of Salem, which in Rhode Island put into practice his ideas about toleration |
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William penn |
Founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682. Joined the quakers |
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John Winthrop |
A lawyer and a devout Christian, assured colonists that their new colony would set an example to the world. Colonized Massachusetts. |
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Backcountry |
Ares of land along the eastern slopes of the Appalachia mountains |
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Proprietary colony |
English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment |
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Colonial voting rights |
White Christian men over the age of 21 were aloud to vote, women, African Americans, and native Americans and non property owners were restricted to vote |
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Triangular trafe |
Colonial trade route between New England, the West Indies, and Africa |
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Navigational acts |
Regulated trade between England and its colonies in 1650s |
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Who settled the middle colonies? |
Dutch, Herman and Swedish |
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Differences between north and South Carolina |
In the northern part of the Carolinas, settlers were mostly poor tobacco farmer tended to have small farms for their self. a group of eight English novel set up a larger colony |
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Dutch/ new netherland |
King Charles the second of England gave new Netherland to his brother the duke of York. He renamed the Colonie New York in the dukes honor. |
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Roger Williams |
Young minister in the village of Salem, which in Rhode Island put into practice his ideas about toleration |
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William penn |
Founded the colony of Pennsylvania in 1682. Joined the quakers |
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James olgethrope |
Respected English soldier and energetic reformer, founded Georgia in 1732 |
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Ben Franklin |
Study literature, mathematics, and foreign languages. Born in 1706, the son of a poor Boston soap and candle maker. he invented practical devices such as a lightning rod, a smokeless fireplace, and bifocal glasses he also paved streets organized a fire company and set up the first lending library in the Americas |
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Puritans |
Religious group who hoped to reform the church by introducing simpler forms of worship |
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Great awakening |
A religious movement in the 1730s - 1740s |
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Quakers |
One of the most despised religious groups in English |
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Gentry |
Highest social class in he 13 colonies |
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Slave codes |
Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African-Americans in the denied their basic rights |
