Middle Colonies Flashcards

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Peter Stuyvesant

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Director-general of the Dutch New Netherland colony, he was forced to surrender New Netherland to the English

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Quakers

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Society of friends; Protestant sect founded in 1640s in England whose members believed that that salvation was available to all people

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William Penn

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Quaker leader who founded a colony for Quakers in Pennsylvania; the colony provided an important example of representative self-government and became a model of freedom and tolerance

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Staple Crops

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A crop that is continuously in demand

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