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Puritans
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A religious group of people from England who wanted not to separate from the church but rather purify the religion.
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General Court
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A representative assembly
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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A plan of government in which Conn set up
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Religious Tolerance
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Willing to let others practice their beliefs freely
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Sabbath
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The holy day of rest(Sunday)
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Town Meeting
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A meeting between the townspeople
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Charles I
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Became the king of England...disagreed with the puritans
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Massachusetts Bay Colony
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The colony set up by the puritans
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John Winthrop
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Governor and minster of MBC
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The Great Migration
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When tons of people came to the newly discovered America
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Boston
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A city in MBC big port for trading
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Thomas Hooker
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Founder of Conn, left MBC
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Hartford
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The Capital of Conn
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Roger Williams
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Founder of Rhode Island, kicked oout of MBC
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Anne Hutchinson
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Kicked out of MBC went to Rhode Island
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Metacom
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King Phillips nickname, leader of the wampanoag
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King Phillip
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leader of the Wampanoag tribe also know as metacom
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The Common
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The center of each village
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meetinghouse
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Where Puritans met for worship and meetings
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Mercantilism
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The idea that colonies should benefit from their mother country
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exports
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goods sent to markets outside of their country
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imports
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goods brought into a country
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Navigation Acts
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The english laws that controlled the trade between its colonies
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Yankees
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A nickname for the merchants in New England
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Triangular Trade
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A three way trade
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Legislature
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The group of people that had the power to make laws
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Glorious Revolution
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Removed King James II from the throne
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Bill of Rights
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A list of freedoms and government promises to protect
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English Bill of Rights
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The government protection where anyone accused of a crime could have a trial before a jury
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Mason Dixion Line
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The "boundary" that separated Maryland and Pennsylvania, and the middle colonies from the southren
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Act of Toleration
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The laws that allowed all catholics freedom
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Bacons Rebellion
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Where he was angry with the government and raided all the natives towns and burned Jamestown
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Indigo
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A cash Crop used to make blue dye
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Debtors
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People who owed money but could not pay it back
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Slave Codes
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"rules" that slaves had to follow
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Racism
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The belief that one race is superior to another
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Gentry
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Top of the social class
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Middles Class
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2nd of the social class
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Indentured Slaves
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last on the social ladder signed contracts to work
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Gullah
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English and African language combo
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Great Awakening
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A religious movement
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Public School
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School supported by taxes
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Tutor
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Private teachers
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Dame school
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A private school run by woman at their homes
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Enlightment
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The movement that started natural laws
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Libel
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that act of publishing that may harm ones reputation
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Apprentice
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A young worker
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Jonathan Edwards
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A preacher who set off the Great Awakening
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George Whitefield
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A popular preacher during the great awakening
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John Locke
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A english philosopher
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Benjamin Franklin
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A very sucessfull inventor lived in MBC
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Poor Richard's Almanack
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A book created by Ben Franklin
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John Peter Zenger
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A german born printer
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Patroon
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A owner of a large piece of land
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Proprietary Colony
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A piece of land given by the king to someone else for a yearly payment
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Royal Colony
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Where is the colony is under direct control by the English King
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Quakers
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a religious group of people who believed all are equal
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Pennsylvania Dutch
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The descendants of German people who traveled to North America
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Cash Crop
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A crop that is grown for profit
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William Penn
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Founder of Pennsylvania
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Peter Stuyvesant
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The last Dutch general of New York
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The Duke of York
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the title of a british nobility
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the "holy" experiment
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The attempt of the quakers setting up a colony in Pennsylvania
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Philadelphia
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A city in Pennsylvania
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The great wagon road
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a old trail from Philadelphia to south carolina
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