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23 Cards in this Set
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Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland that divided the Middle Colonies from Southern Colonies.
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Mason-Dixon Line
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Son of John Calvert who took his place as king when he died. Gave generous land grants to anyone who brought over servants, women and children.
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Lord Baltimore
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A 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all christians.
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Act of Toleration
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A 1676 raid led by Nathaniel Bacon against the governor and Native Americans in Virginia.
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Bacon's Rebellion
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A respected English soldier and energetic reformer who founded Georgia in 1732.
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James Oglethorpe
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Plant used to make a valuable blue dye.
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Indigo
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Person who cannot pay money he or she owes.
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Debtor
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Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied thhem basic rights.
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Slave Code
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Belief that one race is superior to another.
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Racism
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Group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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Puritans
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Lawyer and a devout Puritan who thought the new colony would set an example to the world. First governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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John Winthrop
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Elected representative assembly in the Massachusetts Bay Colony.
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General Court
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A Puritan minister who led about 100 settlers out of Massachusetts Bay because he believed the governor and the officials had too much power.
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Thomas Hooker
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A 1636 plan of government in the Puritan colony of Connecticut.
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Fundamental Orders of Connecticut
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A Puritan who challenged the leaders of Massachusetts Bay. A young minister in the village of Salem, he was gentle and good-natured.
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Roger Williams
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A devout Puritan who rann away to Rhode Island who regularly attended church services in Boston, where she once lived.
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Anne Hutchinson
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Known by his English name, King Phillip, was chief of the Wampanoag Indians.
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Metacom
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Founder of Pennsylvania in 1681. Came from a wealthy English family and was a personal friend of King Charles II. He joined the Quakers.
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William Penn
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Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people.
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Quakers
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Owner of a large estate in a Dutch colony.
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Patroon
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English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment.
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Proprietary Colony
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Colony under the direct control of the English crown.
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Royal Colony
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Crop sold for money at market.
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Cash Crop
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