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| Farmers generally produced just enough to meet the needs of their families |
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| Trade routes that formed a triangle between the Indies with sugar and molasses, New England with rum, and the "Middle Passage" to Africa where they bought slaves. |
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| Wheat and other crops that could easily be sold |
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| Which cities became the largest port cities? |
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| Colonies that had charters or grants of rights or privileges |
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| Owned by an individual proprietor or small group of proprietors |
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| Colonies under direct English control. Parliament appointed a governor and council. Colonists selected an assembly. |
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| Enlightenment thinker who helped guide the colonies to freedom. |
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| Laborers who agreed to work without pay for a certain period of time to pay for their passage to America. |
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| Plantation bosses that kept the slaves working hired. |
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| Believed knowledge, reason, and science could improve society. |
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| What crops were grown in the South by small farmers? |
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| The religious revival that swept through the colonies beginning in the 1730's. |
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| Who could vote? Who could not? |
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White men who owned property
Women, African Americans, Indentured Servants, and landless poor. |
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