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Life in the English Colonies
Ch. 6
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History
4th Grade
02/17/2008

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artisan
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skilled worker who makes things by hand, such as a rope maker, blacksmith, or carpenter
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apprentice
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young person who learns a skill from a more experienced person
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triangular trade route
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trade routes in the shape of a triangle; one began in New England, traded their goods for slaves in West Africa, and then sailed for the West Indies with the slaves
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Middle Passage
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second leg of the triangular trade route that carried slaves under terrible conditions
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Benjamin Franklin
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printer who moved to Philadelphia and founded the city's first newspaper,public library, hospital, and fire department
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self-sufficient
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relying on themselves for most of what they needed; many New England towns were this
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Eliza Lucas Pinckney
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Southern plantation owner who was the first to grow indigo
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Great Awakening
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religious movement in the 1730s that revived colonists' interest in religion
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almanac
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reference book with facts and figures; only the Bible sold more copies during Colonial times
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Olaudah Equiano
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African who was enslaved when young, later gained his freedom, and wrote a book about his life
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Stono Rebellion
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bloody slave rebellion in South Carolina in 1739
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