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18 Cards in this Set
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Toleration |
The willingness to let others practice their own beleifs |
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Racism |
The belief that one race is superior to another |
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Plantation |
A large estate farmed by many workers |
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Mercantilism |
The belief that the colonies existed for the benefit of the home country, they were to supply gold and expand trade |
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Import |
Goods sent into a country |
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Export |
Goods sent out of a country |
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Democratic Government |
A government created by the people, for the people |
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Middle Class |
Farmers who worked their own land, skilled crafts workers, and tradesman (3/4 of people) |
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Indentured servanrt |
Worked without wage for 4-7 years for anyone to pay their passage to the americas |
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Cash Crop |
Crops that are sold at a market |
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Mason-Dixon Line |
The border line between the middle and southern colonies |
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Slave Code |
Treated enslaved Africans like property |
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Massachusetts Bay Colony |
Puritan Colony in New England |
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New England |
The area in the colonies settled by the English colonists. Massachusetts, Maine, Connecticut, Rhode island, and New Hampshire |
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Southern Colonies |
Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia |
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Breadbasket Colonies |
The middle colonies who exported so much grain they were called the breadbasket colonies. New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delware |
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Pennsylvania Dutch |
Large number of German speaking protestants |
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Puritan |
Well educated mercahnts and land owners who went against the teacghings of the catholic church |
