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12 Cards in this Set
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Patroon
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owners of huge estates were called patroons
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Proprietary Colony
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English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment
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Royal Colony
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Colony under the direct control of the English crown
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Quakers
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Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people
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Pennsylvania Dutch
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German-speaking protestants who settled in Pennsylvania
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Cash Crop
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crop sold for money at markets
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William Penn
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Founded Pennsylvania colony in 1681, came from a wealthy english family and joined the Quakers
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the Duke of York
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The colony of new york was named in the duke's honor, The duke of york decided that the colony was too big to govern easily so the colony was split and the other part was called New Jersey in 1664
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Philadelphia
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the capital city of Pennsylvania along the delaware river
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the “holy experiment”
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Penn thought of his colony as the "holy experiment", he wanted it to be a model of religious freedom, peace, and Christian living
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Peter Stuyvesant
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Peter Stuyvesant restored law and order in New Amsterdam
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The Great Wagon Road
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in 1700s, thousands of German and Scotch-Iris settlers arrived in Philadelphia, from there they traveled west into the backcountry. Settlers followed an old Iroquois trail that became known as the Great Wagon Road
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