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51 Cards in this Set
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What religious group was the Massachusetts Bay Colony founded by?
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The Puritans
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Who were the Puritans?
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The Puritans were a religious group who, instead of completely separating from the Church of England, wanted to reform it.
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What kind of practices did the Puritans want to do away with?
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Organ music, finely decorated Churches, and special clothing for priests.
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What year did Charles I become king?
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1625
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Who was the first chosen governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony?
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John Winthrop
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Who founded Connecticut?
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Thomas Hooker
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Why was Connecticut founded?
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Thomas Hooker believed that the government of Massachusetts had too much power.
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Definition: A 1693 plan of government in the Puritan colony in Connecticut; expanded the idea of representative government in the English Colonies.
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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What colony did Roger Williams set up?
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Rhode Island
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What is religious tolerance?
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A willingness to let other practice their own beliefs.
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Who was Anne Huchinson?
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Anne Huchinson was a religious woman who was ordered to a trial for speaking her thoughts at her home after religious sermons. The told the court that God had spoken directly to her.
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Why was there warfare between the colonists and the Native Americans?
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There were very many colonists, and the Native Americans did not like that.
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What is the Sabbath?
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The Sabbath is a holy day of rest.
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What happened at town meetings?
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At town meetings, settlers dicussed and voted on many issues.
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What was a patroon?
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A patroon was an owner of a huge estate in a Dutch Colony.
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Which colonies made up the middle colonies?
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New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Delaware
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Why was New Netherland renamed New York?
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King Charles II of England gave New Netherland to his brother, the Duck of York, naming it in the dukes honor, thus calling the colony New York.
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Why did the Duke of York give some of his colony to his friends?
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He thought the colony was too big.
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What is a proprietary colony?
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A colony in which a king gives land to one or more people in tun for yearly payment.
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In 1702, New Jersey became a ______, a colony under the direct control of the english crown.
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Royal Colony
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The wealthy Englishman, __________ founded the colony of Pennsylvania for the Quakers.
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William Penn
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Who were the Quakers?
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Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people.
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Penn thought of his colony as a ______________. He wanted it to be a model of religious freedom.
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"Holy Experiment"
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The _____________ were German-speaking protestants who settled in Pennsylvania.
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Pennsylvania Dutch
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What is another name for "Crops that are grown to be sold at the market?"
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Cash Crops
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Pennsylvania became a colone of _______ and _________.
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manufacturing; crafts
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What was the Mason-Dixon Line?
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The Mason-Dixon Line was the boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland, and separated the Middle Colonies from the Southern Colonies.
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In 1632, ___________ persuaded King Charles I to grant him land for a colony in the Americas.
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Sir George Calvert
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Why did Sir George Calvert found Maryland?
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He wanted there to be a place where Catholics could practice freely.
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When Sir George Calvert died, his son Cecil, or __________ pushed on with the project.
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Lord Baltimore
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The __________ provided religious freedo to all Christians, but did not extend to Jews.
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Act of Toleration
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In 1663 a group of eight English nobles founded the _________.
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Carolinas
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Settlers learned to make _____, a valuable blue dye.
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indigo
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A man named ____________, a respected English soldier and energetic reformer, founded Georgia in 1732.
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James Oglethorpe
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James Oglethorpe wanted his colony to be a place where ________ could make a fresh start.
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Debtors
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What is a debtor?
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A person who owes money they can not pay back.
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What did slave codes do?
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Slave codes treated enslaved Africans not as people, but as property.
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The belief that one race is superior to another is-
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Racism
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Was there more social equality in England or the Colonies?
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The colonies, though there were still class differences.
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Which people were at the top of society?
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Gentry
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Which people included farmers who worked for their own land, skilled craftworkers, and some tradespeople?
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Middle Class
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Which people worked for anyone who would pay their passage to America, without being paid in wages?
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Indentured Servant
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Who was at the bottom of society; not paid, treated at property?
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Slaves
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The __________ was a religious movement in the English colonies in the early 1700's.
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Great Awakening
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What are public schools?
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Schools supported by taxes
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In the _______ colonies, churches and individual families set up private schools. In the _______ colonies, people hired tutors.
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Middle; Southern
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An _________ worked for a master to learn a trade or craft.
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apprentice
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What were private schools run by women from their own homes called?
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Dame schools
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What was the Enlightenment?
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A movement in Europe that inspired the use of reason.
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Name three things Benjamin Franklin invented.
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Lightning rod, bifocals, odometer
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A ______ is the act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person's reputation.
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Libel
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