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18 Cards in this Set
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TOLERATION |
The willingness to let others practice their own beliefs |
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RACISM |
The belief that one race is superior to another |
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PLANTATION |
A large estate farmed by many workers |
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MERCANTILISM |
The belief that the colonies existed for the benefit of the home country, they were to supply gold and expand trade |
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IMPORT |
Goods brought INTO a country |
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EXPORT |
Goods sent OUT TO markets outside a country |
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DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT |
A government created by the people, for the people |
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MIDDLE CLASS |
Farmers who worked their own land, skilled crafts workers, trades people (3/4ths of Colonists were middle class) |
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INDENTURED SERVANT |
Worked without wages for 4-7 years for anyone who would pay their ocean passage to the Americas. |
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CASH CROP |
Crops that are sold for money at market |
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MASON-DIXON LINE |
The border between Pennsylvania and Maryland dividing the Middle colonies from the Southern colonies |
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SLAVE CODE |
Treated enslaved Africans as property, not as humans |
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MASSACHUSETTS BAY COLONY |
Puritan colony in New England |
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NEW ENGLAND |
The area in the colonies settled by the English colonists. Massachusetts, (Maine), Connecticut, Rhode Island and New Hampshire |
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SOUTHERN COLONIES |
Maryland, Virginia, North and South Carolina and Georgia |
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BREADBASKET COLONIES |
The Middle Colonies who exported so much grain they became know as this. |
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PENNSYLVANIA DUTCH |
Large numbers of German speaking Protestants moved to Pennsylvania. |
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PURITAN |
Well-educated merchants and land owners who went against the teachings of the Catholic church. Came to colonies for religious freedom. |
