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Many times,the ____________ of the plantation was an I.S. or an E.P. who sometimes got a share of the plantations profits
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Overseer
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a quaker himself , asked slaveholding Quakers to release their captives
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John Woolmen
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helped establish Philadelphia's first volunteer fire department,police force, public library, and in 17040,the city's first college
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Benjamin Franklin
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___ became a flourshing port and center for shipbuilding because it its exellent harbor
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boston
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_______ South Carolina was the busiest city of the Southern colonies and was later renamed Charelston
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Charles town
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2 US presidents came from the backcountry ________________ and Andrew Jackson
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J.K.P. James K. Polk
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In the _________ of 1715,fighting broke out between the colonists ofNC and the Yamasee,Muscogee, and Choctaw
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Yamasee War
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___________ were goingto Africa to buy slaves. those people who were sold in to slavery did not volunteer but were forced to leave their their homes and families
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Europeans
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the _________ from England to North America was not pleasent to the colonists. the quarters were cramped, and the food was often rotten.many people didn't survive the trip
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voyage
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it was difficult to get out of being an ______. many of landowners who paid for their ticket to the colonies made exuses as to why they couldn't go free after they'd served their time
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Indentured servant
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_____ was always fluctuating in price depending on supply and demand
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tobacco
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slaves had beenaround sice the _____,but those who were slaves were war prisoners. the slavertpracticed by Europeans in the Americas was different because it was often based on skin color.
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1500"s
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______ was the main way of living for the colonist.
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agriculture
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the ___________ caused the port cities of Boston and New York to thrive from the money earned through all the trading of cash crops
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triangular trade
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____ was the largest of the port cities
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Philadelphia
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_____ was one way the colonist took a step toward free enterprise. the English didn't want this
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shipbuilding
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______ in the northern colonies was much fairer than it was n the south
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slavery
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when _____________ finished their time of service ,they were supposed to be paid "freedom dues". these dues were usually a piece of land
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indentured servants
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accourding to the ______ enslaved people were not allowd to practice their own religion, learn to read,marry,or own property
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slave codes
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_______ was a term used to describe the popularity of moving to the colonies due to hard times in England and the better opportunities the new world offered.
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colony fever
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_________ was the center of success in the colonies. every1 was involved in it in some way or another
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agriculture
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by the late 1600's freedom dues were so small that ________ began to protest the unfair freedom dues they were given.in virginia the burning of Jamestown in 1676 by freed indentured servants made slavery more attractive to plantation owners
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indentured servants
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in _____ virginia passed the slaves codes the captive africans were caught in a perment system.these codes too away most of the captives rights
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1705
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_______ was good for shipbuilding and this timber became another big product needed in the colonies
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Live oak wood
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a virginia planter and slave owner said that slavery was against the true principals of religion and justice he began freeing the 500 enslaved people on his plantation
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Robert carter 111
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