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9 Cards in this Set
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religious toleration
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the freedom of everyone to practice their religions as they want to
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yeoman
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self-sufficient farmers in Pennsylvania and other colonies
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proprietor
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a single owner of an enormous amount of land
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fall line
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a line of waterfalls that exists up and down the East Coast between the hills and the coastal plain below
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Piedmont
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a region of rolling hills in the middle colonies that runs from the Appalachian Mountains to the ocean
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backcountry
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the unsettled, or wilderness part of each colony, usually beyond the fall line
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holy experiment
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the Pennsylvania colony as governed by Penn, so-called because it was governed according to Quaker beliefs
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apprentice
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a person who works with an older, experienced person to learn a skill
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subsistence
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farming where the farmers raised just enough wheat or corn to feed themselves
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