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The formal document issued by the king that outlined a colony's geographic boundaries and specified how it would be governed |
a charter |
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After the Duke of York established the colony of New York, he gave large pieces of it to his friends who, in turn, established which colony? |
New Jersey |
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The Southern Colonies were made up of these colonies: |
Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Maryland, and Virginia |
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The New England Colonies are made up of these colonies: |
New Hampshire, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island
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The Middle Colonies are made up of these colonies:
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New York, New Jersey, Delaware, and Pennsylvania |
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The agreement that Pilgrims wrote and signed describing how they would govern themselves in the Americas was called the |
Mayflower Compact |
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Mercantilism is |
an economic policy in which nations tried to gain wealth by controlling trade and establishing colonies |
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Form of government where the power to govern belongs to the people |
democracy |
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Crop such as tobacco, sugar, and cotton raised in large quantities and sold for a profit is known as |
a cash crop |
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A major problem for Virginia tobacco growers |
finding enough workers to grow their crop |
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The colony of Maryland was founded by |
members of the Calvert family |
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William Penn founded PA because he wanted a colony where |
Quakers could live safely |
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In Connecticut, this was the first written plan of government for any of the colonies, guaranteed the right to vote to all men who were members of the Puritan church, and was not legally authorized by the king |
The Fundamental Orders |
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What kind of government did the Puritans establish in Massachusetts? |
a theocracy (a form of government in which God or a deity isrecognized as the supreme civil ruler) |
