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History chapter 5 Flashcards

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Proverbs and Idioms flashcards
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Emigrate

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Leave one’s own country and settle elsewhere

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Puritans

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Protestants who wanted no church of England

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Massachusetts Bay Colony

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The colony founded by the puritans

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Great Migration

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The movement of puritans coming to America

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Thomas Hooker

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founder of the Connecticut colony

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John Winthrop

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First governor of the Massachusetts bay colony

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Roger Williams

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Founder of the Rhode Island colony

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Patroon

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Rich landowner in the Dutch colonies

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Toleration

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Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs

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Anne Hutchinson

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puritan who was sent away from Massachusetts

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New England Colonies

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Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and New Hampshire

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New Amsterdam

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Dutch colony renamed New York when the English took it over

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Peter Stuyvesant

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Harsh governor of New Amsterdam

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Royal Colony

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English colony directly under the king’s control

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Pennsylvania

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Means “Penn’s Woods”

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William Penn

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Founded the colony of Pennsylvania

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Philadelphia

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Greek word meaning “Brotherly Love”

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Lord Baltimore

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Founded the colony of Maryland for Catholics

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Middle Colonies

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New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Delaware

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James Oglethorpe

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Founded the colony of Georgia for debaters from England

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Exports

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Goods sent to markets outside a country

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Imports

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Goods brought into a country

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Legislature

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A group of people who have the power to make laws

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Indentured servant

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A person who signed a contract to work for a certain length of time

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Southern Colonies

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Maryland, Virgina, North Carolina, Georgia

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Mercantilism

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A theory that a nation became strong by building up its gold supplies

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Navigation Acts

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Series of laws that governed trade between England and its Colonies

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Enumerated Articles

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Certain goods from the Colonies

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Some reasons people came to America

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Religious freedom
find gold to get rich
land ownership
Debaters could make a new start

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Kinds of primary sources

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Photographs
Letters
Diaries
Journals
Contracts
Laws
Treaties

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