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Thirteen Colonies Flashcards

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Peter Minuit

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New York

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William Rogers

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Rhode Island

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John smith

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Virginia

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Cecil Calvert

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Maryland

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John Winthrop

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Massachusetts

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Thomas hooker

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Connecticut

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William penn

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Pennsylvania

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John Berkeley and George carteret

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New Jersey

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Fernando gorges and John mason

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New Hampshire

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James Oglethorpe

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Georgia

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Mary musgrove

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Helped James Oglethorpe and she was a daughter of a creek and English women and man

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Navigation acts

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Regulated trade between England and its colonies . The purpose of these laws was to ensure that only England benefited from colonial trade.

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Plantation

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Large estates farmed by many workers

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Debtors

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People who owed money they could not pay back , could make a new start

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Buffer

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Land located between two larger lands that reduces the possibility of conflict between them

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Indigo

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A plant used to make a valuable blue dye

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Tidewater

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The land was washed by ocean tides and was along the plain of rivers and creeks

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Glorious revolution

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It was in 1688 and the colonists won still more rights

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The English bill of rights

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A written list of freedoms the government promises to protect and William and Mary signed this

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Great awakening

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A religious movement and it swept through the colonies . It touched women and men of all backgrounds and classes

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Benjamin Franklin

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The best example of the enlightenment spirit in the 13 colonies

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Legislature

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A group of people who have the power to make laws

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Triangular trade

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On the first leg New England carried fish, lumber, to the West Indies, the West Indies gave sugar and molasses, on the second leg ships carried guns, gunpowder, and on the final leg Africa gave enslaved Africans to the West Indies

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Yankee

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Merchants from New England that dominated colonial trade. A nickname that they implied that they were clever and hard working

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Imports and exports

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Imports - goods brought into a country

Exports-goods sent to markets outside a country

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Mercantilism

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According to this theory a nation became strong by building up its gold supply and expanding trade

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Puritans

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John winthrop and his followers were part of this group .

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General court

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Male church members elected representatives to this assembly

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Great migration

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Men, women , children made the journey from England to Massachusetts. This is a movement of people.

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Fundamental orders of Connecticut

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Settlers wrote this plan and it gave the vote to all men who were property owners and it limited the governors power.

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Anne Hutchinson

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A devout Puritan who regularly attended church services and she escaped to Rhode Island .

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Metacom

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Warplanes Indians were led by their Chief Metacom

Who attacked villages throughout New England.

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Common

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At the center of each village was the common which was an open field where cattle grazed .

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Sabbath

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The puritans took this holy day of rest very seriously .

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Town meetings

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Settlers discussed and voted on Many issues at these meetings .

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Toleration

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Means a willingness to let others practice their own beliefs .

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Patroons

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Owners of huge estates and granted large parcels of land to rich families.

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Peter Stuyvesant

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The governor of new Netherlands swore to defend the city.

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Proprietary colony

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This is where the king gives land to one or more people.

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Proprietors

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They were free to divide the land and rent it to others .

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Royal colony

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A colony under control of the English crown .

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Quakers

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One of the most despised religious groups in England and William penn joined the Quakers.

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Pennsylvania Dutch

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German speaking Protestants became known as this because people could not pronounce the word Deutsch which means German.

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Cash crops

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The middle colonies produced surpluses of wheat, barley and these were called cash crops or crops that are sold for money at the market.

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Breadbasket colonies

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The middle colonies exported so much grain that they became known as this.

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Backcountry

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Area of land along the eastern slopes of the Appalachian mountains .

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Great wagon road

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Settlers followed an old Iroquois trail that became known as this.

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Mason Dixon line

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Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland and it also divided the middle colonies from the southern colonies .

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Act of toleration

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The act of toleration provided religious freedom for all Christians and as in many colonies this freedom did not extend to Jews.

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Bacons rebellion

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An uprising where Nathaniel bacon a young planter organized angry men and women on the frontier . He raided Native American villages and burned down Jamestown .

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Slave codes

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Slave codes treated enslaved Africans not as human beings but as property.

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Racism

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The belief that one race is superior to another was called racism.

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