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8th Grade
11/02/2006

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Group Of English Protestants Who settled the Massachusetts Bay Colony
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Puritans
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Meeting in colonial new england where colonists discussed and voted on issues
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Town Meeting
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A Group Of People who have the power to make laws
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Legislature
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English Colony in which the king gave land to proprieters in exchange for a yearly payment
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Proprietary Colony
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Protestant Reformersho believe in the equality for all people
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Quakers
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Colony under the direct control of the english crown
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Royal Colony
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Crop Sold For Money at market
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cash crop
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Trade Product brought into a country
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import
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trade product sent to a market outside country
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Export
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A 1767 raid by Nathaniel Bacon against the governor and native americans in virginia
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Bacon's Rebellion
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Boundary between
pennsylvania And Maryland that divided the middle colonies and the southern colonies
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Mason-Dixon Line
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Laws That Controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied their basic rights
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Slave Code
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Series Of Laws passed by the english parliament in the 1650's that regulated trade between England and its colonies
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Navigation Acts
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Colonial trade route between New England, The West Indies, and Africa
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Triangular Trade
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Religous Movement in the english colonies in the early 1700's
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Great Awakening
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Movement in Europe in the 1600's and 1700's that emphasized the use of reason
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Enlightenment
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Who First Settled the colony of Maryland?
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Lord Baltimore
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Why did England pass the Nvigation Acts
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So they could regulate trade
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What was the economy of The New England Colonies?
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Indians,Corn,Pumpkins,Squash,Beans,and Halibut
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What was the economy of the middle colonies?
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Wheat,Barley,rye,heards of cattle
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What was the economy of the southern colonies?
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Slave Trade, large plantations
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How was pennsylvania founded?
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King Charles II granted Land to William Penn
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Who believed England Had Fallen on "Evil Times"?
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Puritan Leaders
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How was North Carolina Founded?
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Poor Farmers Drifted There
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How was south carolina founded?
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8 English nobles Set Up this large colony
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How was Georgia Founded?
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It was Built for a place where debtors could go
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How did Kids Learn in New England
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All parents taught their children
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How were kids taught in Middle and southern colonies?
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Churches and individual families set up public schools
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What was the result of the rivalry between the netherlands and england?
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England Took over the Netherlands
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Why did the puritans leave england for massachusetts?
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they hoped to set up a simpler form of worship
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What colony was founded by a quaker as a model for religion and peace
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Pennsylvania
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Which colony started the first tax-supported schools in the colonies?
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Massachusttes
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How did colonial governments limit women's liberties?
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Married Women COuldn't Start their own businesses
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What was the difference between slaves and indentured servants?
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ndentured Servants work in order to get a passage to a colony
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What was the difference between slaves and indentured servants?
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ndentured Servants work in order to get a passage to a colony
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Why did Roger Williams move from massachusetts to Rhode Island?
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Massachusetts Colony kicked him out
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what were the effects of the great awakening on colonial life
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Spread of democratic feelings: tolerant of different beliefs
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What influenced the development of counties in the middle colonies?
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Most of the people were farmers
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