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04/17/2009

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Duties
Definition
Import taxes
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Bacon
Definition
He Led a rebellion in 1667 against the Virginia colonial government; they wanted more land, less taxes and elections.
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Town Meeting
Definition
The Center of New England polotics where people talked about and decided issues of local importance
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Triangular
Definition
Type of trade in which colonist took goods they could produce best and find the best markets to sell them in.
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puritans
Definition
Protestants who wanted to reform the Church of England.
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Tobacco
Definition
John rolfe began this successful cash crop to export to England.
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Rhode Island
Definition
Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson fromed this colony after leavin Massachusetts.
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Mercantilism
Definition
Economic system where nations created and maintained wealth by carefully controlling trade.
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South Carolina
Definition
Because of its production of rice this colony had more African slaves than free whites.
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Oglethorpe
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Founded Georgia for poor English citizens and jailed debtors; He outlawed slavery and large land grants.
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Jamestown
Definition
The first permanent English settlement 1607.
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Headright
Definition
the system that gave 50 acres for each paid passage to the colonies.
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Slavecodes
Definition
Laws of most of the southern clonies to control slaves.
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staple
Definition
crops grown in the middle colonies like wheat barley oats and livestock which were always in demand.
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indentured
Definition
Servants who signed a contract to work 4-7years in exchange for paid passage.
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pilgrims
Definition
The group of separatists who left England due to religious intloerance and settled in 1620 in what was to become Massachusetts.
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Hooker
Definition
The minister some historians called the father of American Demorcracy
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Penn
Definition
Founder of a middle colony who sought religious freedom and a just government.
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Toleration
Definition
This Act of 1649 made restricting the religious rights of Christians a crime in Maryland.
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Williams
Definition
He supported the separation of the church from politics tolerance for all and fair treatment for indians.
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Connecticut
Definition
The fundamental Orders of this colony was a set of principals that made it's governement more democratic in 1636.
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Middle passage
Definition
Terrifying and deadly journey that brought enslaved African Americans to the Americas.
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Burgesses
Definition
The second house in the Virginia assembly were elected colonist to represent plantations and towns.
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Powhatan
Definition
Indian confederacy that helped Jamestown settlers survive.
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Cash
Definition
Crops such as tobacco tice and indigo which were easily solf for profit.
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Navigation
Definition
A Series of acts (Laws) by Englands parliamnet hat required Colonist to do the bulk of their trading with England
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Mayflower
Definition
the name of the compact by the pilgrims.
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