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34 Cards in this Set
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Name the 4 Middle Colonies
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New York
New Jersey Delaware Pennsylvania |
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From which 2 continents did most Middle Colony settlers come?
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Europe and Africa
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Across which ocean did the settlers travel to arrive in the Middle Colonies?
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Atlantic Ocean
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The nickname for the Middle Colonies....
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Bread Colonies
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What was the most important effect the settlers had on the Indians in the Middle Colonies?
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Settlers took the land from the Indians
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define cultural borrowing
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exchange of ideas, languages, customs, and ways of doing things among different groups of people
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The Quaker who started the largest of the Middle Colonies....
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William Penn
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Which nation first settled what is now New York?
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Netherlands
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Name the Indians League made up of several tribes
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The Iroquois League
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Who took and renamed New Netherlands?
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Duke of York
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Define tributary
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a small stream that flows into a larger river
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Describe William Penn's treatment of the Indians....
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He was fair and respected their land and their rights
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Most Middle Colony children were educated here.....
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at home
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The term for someone who agreed to work for several years in exchange for passage to America...
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indentured servant
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Was Pennsylvania considered tolerant or intolerant/
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tolerant
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Most Middle Colony people had this job...
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farmer
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This river forms the border between New Jersey and Pennsylvania....
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Delaware River
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Why did Pennsylvania want Delaware so badly?
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to have direct access to the ocean
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Name the largest city in the the Middle Colonies by the middle of the 18th century....
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Philadelphia
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Which was George Cateret's colony?
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New Jersey
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Name 3 large rivers in the Middle Colonies....
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Susquehanna, Delaware, Hudson
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What is a gristmill?
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a place where grain is ground into flour
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Name the capital of New York today...
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Albany
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the term for a barrel maker...
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cooper
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What is a hornbook used for....
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teaching/learning the alphabet
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What is the capital of New Jersey today?
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Trenton
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Delaware's capital?
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Dover
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Define pacifist....
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someone who opposes war and loves peace
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Name the Middle Colonies that border Maryland....
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Pennsylvania and Delaware
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Where the summers in the Middle Colonies longer or shorter than the summers in the Southern Colonies?
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shorter
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How many fewer Middle Colonies were there than Southern Colonies?
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one fewer
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William Penn lived in the 15th, 17th, or 19th century
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17th
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Most Quakers were for or against slavery (choose one)
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against
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Is Comfrey an Indian, a plant, or an animal?
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plant
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