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18 Cards in this Set
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The Mason Dixon Line
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The boundary Between Maryland and Pennsylvania. It separated the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies
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Act of Toleration
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This Law provided religious freedom for all Christians. This law did not count for Jews
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Bacons Rebellion
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Nathanial Bacon organized angry men and Women on the frontier. He and his angry colonist raided Native American Settlements regardless if the had be friendly to colonists. They then went to the Capital of Jamestown and lit it on fire. The Rebellion ended pretty quickly when Nathanial died suddenly.
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Indigo
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A valuable Plant that is used to make Blue die.
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Debtors
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people who owed money but they could not pay it back.
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Slave Codes
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laws that allowed colonist not to treat African Americans like Humans but like property.
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Racism
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The belief that one Race is better than another.
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Sir George Calvert
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a man who convinced the King to give him land to start the colony of Maryland
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Lord Baltimore
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The Man who founded Maryland.
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Chesapeake Bay
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A bay near on the Coast of The Southern Colonies.
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Margaret and Mary Brent
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two women who took up Lord Baltimore’s offer of land. In time they had set up to plantations in Maryland.
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Nathaniel Bacon
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see Bacons Rebellion above.
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Charles Town
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When Eight English settlers went farther south than the Carolinas and started this colony.
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James Oglethorpe
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: a respected English soldier and energetic reformer founded Georgia in 1732.
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Savannah
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The first Settlement.
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The Tidewater
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The earliest planters settled along rivers and creeks of the coastal plain. This region soon became know as the Tidewater.
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The Backcountry
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Land that was west of the Tidewater area. It was a better democratic area there so therefore settlers treated each other more like equals.
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The Middle Passage
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In the 1700 English Sailors started to call he passage of slave ships west across the Atlantic Ocean The Middle Passage
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