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| Person who agrees to work under a contract for a specified period of time - usually 7 years- in return for transportation to the new world, food and shelter |
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| an area of new land that is settled but still ruled by a parent country. |
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| a crop gotten from native americans by the Jamestown colonists that became popular in England and allowed the colony to grow and progress. |
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| Where a person is owned like property. The colonists needed this cheap form of labor to run tobacco, rice, indigo and later cotton plantations. |
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| A group of colonists looking for relegious freedoms who settled in New England. The Pilgrams of Plymouth Massachusetts |
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| The group of settlers from Holland who settled in New England and started the colony of New Amsterdam |
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| The name given to New Amsterdam after the English colonists took it over |
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| The first successful English colony in Virginia |
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| The route of the slave ships bringing slaves from Africa to America |
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| the relegious movement in the colonies started by George Whitefield and John and Charles Wesley in the 1730's. |
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| The first instance of self-government in the colonies located in Virginia. |
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| a rebellion against the government in Jamestown. The town was burned. |
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| a document that agreed that all the Pilgrams would support the local government of the new colony. |
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| War the the colonists and English fouhgt against the French and Indians. George Washington was a young officer in the British army during this war and learned how to fight with an army |
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| King George's rule that the colonists could not move west of the Appalachian Mts. This was very unpopular with the colonists and started resentment against English rule. |
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| The Massachusetts authorities tried 20 men and women as witches. |
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| Metacom united Indian groups against the colonists of New England in 1675 destroying 20 towns and killing 2000 colonists. |
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| New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware. These colonies were known as the bread basket colonies because of the grains grown to make bread. They also had large cities like Philidelphia and New York where commerce was the economic means. |
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| a religious group headed by William Penn who settled in Pennsylvania. |
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| Virginia, the Carolinas, and Georgia. These colonies grew Indigo, rice, tobacco and later cotton. |
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| Person who agrees to work under a contract for a specified period of time - usually 7 years- in return for transportation to the new world, food and shelter |
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| Sons and Daughters of Liberty |
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| Groups that started throughout the colonies to protest English rule. The Boston Tea Party was an example. |
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| British laws passed as a result of the Boston Tea Party. These laws closed Boston Harbor and quartered British troops in colonists homes. |
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| The native american chief in the Jamestown, Va. area. |
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| Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Conneticut, and Rhode Island. Most were started for religious freedom. Ship building, trade and fishing were the main economies of these colonies. |
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| the form of local government started by the colonists in New England and still practiced there today. |
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| A New England colony started by Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson to practice religious freedom. |
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| where Europeans shipped African as slvaes across the Atlantic Ocean to America. |
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| a great inventor, scientist, writer, ambassador and founding father who proved that social mobility was possible in America. |
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| The English policy that left the American colonies alone to govern and provide for themselves. |
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| The philosophy that a country becomes more powerful by making and selling more goods (exports) than it has to buy (imports) |
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| a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine stating the reasons for the colonies to be free from England. |
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| The treaty that ended the French and Indian War. |
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| A British law that forced colonists to pay a tax for a stamp for all printed materials including playing cards. |
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| a form of government where any person can be elected to represent the people who vote him into office. |
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| small towns not far from Boston Mass. where the first fighting of the Revolutionary War took place. It was the "shot heard around the World" |
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| the right to vote in government elections. |
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