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41 Cards in this Set
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Barter
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To trade goods for goods or goods for services.
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Demand
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How many people want the goods.
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Supply
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How many goods are in the market.
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Scarcity
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Shortness of supply/ when the supply can't meet the demand.
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Law of supply and demand
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Demand goes up supply goes down and price goes up demand is low supply is high and price is low.
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Indigo
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A plant that is used as a dye.
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Slavers
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People that went to Africa to get the slaves.
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Why is the year 1619 so important
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When the house of Burgesses was established. When first africans were brought to Jamestown.
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Indentured Servant
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A person that works for someone else and earns the money they needed to pay for the trip to America.
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Slave
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A person usually African American that is owned by another person and does work for them.
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Middle Passage
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The passage that brought slaves from Africa to the Americas.
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What is important about the year 1607
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Jamestown was settled in 1607.
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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He settled Roanoke.
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Chief Powhatan
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Pocahontas's father leader of the Powhatan tribe.
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Duke of York
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Founder of New York.
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Lord Baltimore
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Founder of Maryland.
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James Porter
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Indentured servant from Bound for Freedom.
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Captain John Smith
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Founder of Jamestown.
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Pocahontas
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Used to show that Indians could be civilized.
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Roger Williams
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Founder of Rhode Island.
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Mr Waldress
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Nice master from bound for freedom
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Mr Cotter
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Mean master of Davy Butcher
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Davy Butcher
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Indentured servant from bound for freedom.
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John Rolfe
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Pocahontas's husband brought Tobacco to England
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William Penn
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Founder of Pennsylvania.
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James Orglethorpe
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Founder of Georgia.
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Cato
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Slave from bound for freedom
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Pilgrims
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Settled in Massachusetts in 1620 for religious freedom
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Debtors
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Settled in Georgia
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Puritans
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Settled in Massachusetts settled in MA because England wouldnt let them practice their religion.
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Quakers
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Settled in pennsylvania for religious freedom.
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Roman Catholics
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Settled in maryland after fleeing prosocution.
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Dutch
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Settled in New York for resources and land.
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Virginia 1639 law
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If white people dont have guns they will be fined and africans are not allowed to have guns and ammo
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Maryland 1664 law
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All white women who marry a black man or slave are to be slaves until their husband dies and their children will be slave like there fathers.
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Virginia 1667 law
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All children that were slaves at birth if they get baptized and become christian they still dont become free
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Virginia 1682 law
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All people of color brought into the country that are not christian at first purchase are to be taken as slaves.
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What is the importance of the House of Burgesses
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The first representative assembly in the american colonies
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Major cash crops of New england
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Ship building and whaling
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cash crop of middle colonies
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bread and wheat
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cash crop of the southern colonies
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rice indigo and tobacco.
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