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Colonial Vocabulary, 4th period
Kaileigh Wodtke.
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History
8th Grade
10/04/2011

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Puritans
Definition
Group of English protants who settled the massachusetts Bar colony
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Sabbith
Definition
Holy day of rest
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Proprietary Colony
Definition
English Colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment
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Royal colony
Definition
Colony under the direct control of the english crown
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Cash crop
Definition
Crops sold for money at markets
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Quakers
Definition
Prostant reformers who believe in the equality of all people
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Pennsylvania Dutch
Definition
German-speaking Prostants who settled in pennsylvania.
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Mason-Dixon line
Definition
Boundary between pennsylvania and maryland that divided the middle colonies for the southern colonies
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Debators
Definition
Person who cannot pay money he or she owes
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Slave codes
Definition
laws that controlled the lives of African Americansand denied them basic rights
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Merchantilism
Definition
Theory that the nations economic strenght came from keeping a strict control over its colonial trade.
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Triangular Trade
Definition
Colonial trade route between New England, The West indies, And Africa.
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Indentured Servants
Definition
person who agreed to work without wages for a period of time in exchange for passage to the colonies.
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Great Awakening
Definition
Religious movement in the English colonies in the early 1700's
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Dame Schools
Definition
School run by a woman, usually in her own home.
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Enlightenment
Definition
movement in Europe in the 1600's and 1700's that emphasized the use of a reason
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