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36 Cards in this Set
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Town Meeting |
Place where new England citizens passed laws and budgets and discussed issues. |
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Charters of the VA company |
Permission given by the Virginia company to start a colony |
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Mayflower Compact |
An agreement signed by the pilgrims on the Mayflower to follow the laws of the Plymouth colony |
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Interdependence |
People or colonies relying on each other to obtain things they need but didn't make themselves |
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Consent of the governed |
Agreement among people to make and uphold laws rather than follow laws from somewhere else. |
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Cash crop |
Crops grown by family that are extra, for them to sell, and not needed by the family that grew the product. |
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Debtor |
Someone who owes money over a period of time rather than a day or two |
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Royal Colony |
Chartered and controlled by the king and queen |
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Proprietary colony |
Chartered by king and queen, but controlled by a person or group of people who follow royal laws without direct supervision from the royals |
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Triangular Trade |
Trade that goes from England, to Africa, to the colonies |
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Merchantilism
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Control by one country, of trade with its colonies |
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Limited government |
No more government control than is necessary to run a colony of country |
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Ann Hutchenson |
Woman kicked out of Massachusetts bay colony and went to live in Rhode Island. Her "crime" was being a woman who preached |
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Economic venture |
Reason that colony was started. One example is Jamestown. |
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Squanto |
Native American who helped the pilgrims survive their first winter in New England |
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New England colonies |
Included Massachusetts, Connecticut, New Hampshire and Rhode Island |
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Market |
The place they sold and bought all of their items |
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Roanoke |
Known as the lost colonie, in what is now North Carolina |
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Middle/ midatlantic colonies |
Included New York, New Jersey, Delaware Pennsylvania and sometimes Maryland |
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Southern |
Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia |
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Roger Williams |
Founded Rhode Island for religious freedom |
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James Oglethorpe |
Founded Georgia as a haven for debtors |
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Traditional colony |
Colony where is your dad is a farmer and you are a farmer, chances are your kids will be farmers. |
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James Winthrop
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LED puritans to found Massachusetts bay colony, then took a strong hold on leading Massachusetts bay colony
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William penn |
Founded Pennsylvania with a charter from the king |
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Rule of law |
No matter how important a person is, they must follow the same laws and rules as everyone else |
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Import and export |
To bring in good from another country, or to sell good to another country |
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Quakers |
Religious leaders that settled in Pennsylvania and has food relations with Native Americans. Believed slavery was wrong |
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Indetured servant |
If a person worked for 3-7 years, they would get someone to pay for them to go to the colonies, get new clothes, and get land to start a farm |
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Democracy |
Type of government in which government officials were elected by direct voting or the officials that they elected |
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Representative government |
People chose representatives to choos laws for them. If they liked their ruling, they would reelect them. If the didnt, they would elect another |
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William Bradford |
Governor of Plymouth |
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Pocahontas |
Native American girl that helped smooth relationships between the Jamestown settlers and some of the Powhatan tribes |
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House of burgesses |
First government assembly met in colonies in Virginia. This government body is know as... |
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Specialize |
To become better at one job than the rest |
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