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69 Cards in this Set
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Charter-
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Legal Document giving certain rights to a person or company.
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Burgess-
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Representitive to the Colonial Assembly of Virginia.
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Representitive government-
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System of government in which voters elect Representitives to make laws.
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Toleration-
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Willingness to let others practice in their own beleifs
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Cash Crop -
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Surplus of crops sold for money on the world market
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Back country -
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area along the eastern slopes of the appalachin Mts
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Slave code -
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laws that controlled the behavior of slaves and denied them basic rights
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Racisim -
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Beleif that one race is superiour to another
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Mercantilism -
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economic theory that a nations strenght came from the gold supplies and expanding of trade
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Import -
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trade or good brought into a country
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Export -
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Trade or good sent to outside countrys
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Triangular Trade -
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Colonial trade between New England and the West Indies and Africa
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Legislaure -
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group of people with power to make laws for a country
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Gentry -
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Highest Social class in the 13 english colonies
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Indentured Servant -
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Person who signed a contract to work for a certain amount of time in exchange for passage to the new land
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Apprentice -
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A person who learns a job from antoher person for little to no pay.
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Why were people being pushed out to go to the new land?
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1. Econmic
2. Hunger 3. Homeless 4. Poverty 5. No opportunitys |
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Why were people being pulled to the new land?
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Amazing abundance
Think Forests Plentiful game Flocks of birds Waters chocked with fish Rich soil |
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Religion wise, Why were people being pushed to new land.
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Religous intolerance-If you don't agree with church your considered a "freak"
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Religion wise, Why were people being pulled to the new land?
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Religous freedom
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New england Colonies
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Compact villages harsh climate, hilly terrain, think rocky soil.
Econmy: Forest and sea, fur |
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Middle colonies
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Varied lands scape and people.
Economy: Rich farmland, forests, furs, merchants, ship men, and trades peolpe. |
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Southern Colonies
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Lives centered around agriculture
Economy: warm weathers crops - tobacco, rice, sugar cane , indigo and slaves |
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Who was the leader that saved the Jamestown settelment from failure?
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John Smith
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Who were the representatives to the colonial assembly of Virginia ?
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Burgesses
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What kind of government let voters elect representatives to make laws for them?
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Representitive Government
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What was the agreement signed by the pilgrims before going ashore?
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May flower Compact
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In ____ year 105 colonists settled in virgina and named their colony James town
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1607
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The founding of _____ was the begininning of representative government in the English colonies.
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Parliament
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The ______ came to North america in search of religious freedom.
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Pilgrims
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What year was James town founded?
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1607
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What year was plymoth founded?
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1620
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In viginia what were males settleds allowed to elect?
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burgessess
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These representatives and the Governor made laws for the colony at the?
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House of Burgesses
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In england their Repsentitiave assembly was called?
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Parliment
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John winthrop and his followers were part of a religous group known oas the?
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Puritans.
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The puritans wanted to?
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Reform the Church of England by doing away with the practices borrowed from Romand Cathlics
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What colony did the puritans setup?
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Massachucets bay colony
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Who clamied Conneticut?
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Tomas Hooker
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Who claimed Road Island?
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Roger Williams
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Who believed in letting others practice their own beliefs? This idea was called?
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Roger Williams
toleration |
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Why did fighting break out between white settlers and Native Americans in New England?
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Taking over Native american Land.
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Who were the Protestand reformers who settled in Pennsylvania?
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Quakers
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What were the crops that are sold for money on world markets?
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Cash Crops
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What was the name for the middle colonies because they exported so much grain?
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Bread Basket
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What was the area of land along the eastern slopes of the Appalachian Mountains?
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Back country
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Who discovered Pennsylvania?
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William Penn
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In what year did the separatist land in the New World?
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1620
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Name the first Settelment of Massachusetts bay.
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Plymouth
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What book was read daily in the New England Colonies?
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Bible
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Why did New England Colonies have small farms?
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Becuase of thin rocky soil
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What 2 things are the New England colonies founded upon?
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God and Cod
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What is the Oldest collage in the United States?
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Harvord
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In _____ Jamestown became the ____ English settelment in the New World?
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1607
First Permanent |
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What was the first cash crop of Virginia?
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Tobbaco
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What was also grown on the plan tations of the south?
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Rice and Sugar Canes
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What was the cheap labor of the Southern plantation system?
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Slaves
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What was the first representative assembly in Virginia?
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House of burgesses
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What were the social centers of the Southern Colonies?
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Taverns
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What country did All southern Colonies Come from?
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England
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Who was the English soldier and reformer who w founded Georgia in _____?
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James Oglethorp
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What is an area of low land washed by ocean tides?
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Tide Water
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What were the laws that controlled slaves behavior and denied them basic rights?
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Slave codes
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What was the belief that one race is uperior to another?
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Racism
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What was the voyage of slave ships from Africa to the Americas?
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Middle Passage
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What was the major products of Virginia, Maryland and parts of North Carolina?
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Tobbaco
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Where did Southerners build larger plantations?
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In the tide water
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What groups in the colonies had almost no rights?
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Africans, Indians, Women, White Servants
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Why did the Great Awakening Incrase Religous Tolerance in the colonies?
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1740-1750 Joined Churches people started and became more tolerant.
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