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| Original American colony, in what is now Virginia. |
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| Early colonists who settled Massachusetts and were religious dissenters. |
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| Part of the original thirteen colonies - Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and New Hampshire. |
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| West Africans were kidnapped and forced onto ships that would carry them across the Atlantic Ocean to the New World. |
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| Dissenting Protestant group, members of which settled the colony of Pennsylvania. |
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| People who worked to pay off borrowed money. |
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| Those who oppose the views of the dominant church, such as the Pilgrims and Quakers. |
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| Part of the original thirteen colonies - New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and Delaware. |
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| Part of the original thirteen colonies - Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Georgia. |
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| American Indians or Native Americans |
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| Residents of North America prior to the arrival of the European immigrants who inhabited the colonies. |
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| Slave trade route among Europe, Africa, and the Americas. |
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| System of Southern agriculture before the Civil War, depending heavily on slave labor. |
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| Settlers of North America's Atlantic coast who were looking for a new life and for religious freedom. |
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| separation of church and state |
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| Keeping religion and politics distinct. |
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| A number of related conditions involving control of a person against his or her will, enforced by violence or other, clear forms of coercion. It almost always occurs for the purpose of securing the labor of the person or people concerned. |
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| Voyage from Africa to the New World, part of the Triangular Slave Trade. |
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