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Representative government

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A government where voters elect representatives to make laws for them

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Charter

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A legal document giving certain rights to a person or company

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Magna Carta

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A British document that contained two basic ideas, monarchs have to obey laws and citizens have basic rights. It limits the power if the king
CAN’T RAISE TAXES

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Parliament

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Representative assembly in England

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Mayflower Compact

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A 1620 agreement for ruling the Plymouth colony

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Sir Walter Raleigh

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Founder of Roanoke colony

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John smith

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Saved Jamestown, Englishman who set up strict rules and alliances to help the colony

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Powhatan

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The most powerful Indian chief, helped Jamestown colonists

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Pocahontas

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Powhatan’s daughter, Married John Rolfe

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House of burgesses

1619

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The assembly of government representatives.

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Burgesses

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Elected representatives in the Jamestown colony

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Pilgrims

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Someone who makes a long journey for religious reasons

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Squanto

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Indian of the Wampanoag tribe, helped Jamestown settlers, spoke English

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Toleration

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Excepting other people’s point of views

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Religious toleration

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Accepting and being okay with someone worshipping a different religion

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Town meeting

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Place for settlers to discuss and vote on town issues. New England colonies

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John Winthrop

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Founder of Massachusetts, first governor, Puritan

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Puritans

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Group of English Protestants who settled the Massachusetts bay colony

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General court

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Elected representative assembly in Massachusetts bay colony

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Great migration

1629-1640

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The movement if 15,000 some people from England to Massachusetts

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Thomas Hooker

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Founder of Connecticut, man who took people from Massachusetts and started a colony

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Roger Williams

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Founder of Rhode Island, disagreed with Massachusetts gov. And Puritan church

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Fundamental orders of Connecticut

1639

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Plan of government for Connecticut colony

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Anne Hutchinson

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Speaker Of beliefs on puritan topics, exiled from Massachusetts

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Proprietary colony
English colony in which the king gave land to proprietors in exchange for a yearly payment.
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Royal Colony
A colony under the direct control of the English crown
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Cash crop
Crops sold for money at a market
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Peter Stuyvesant
Restorer of law and order in new Amsterdam, proclaimed himself governor
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William penn
Founder Of Pennsylvania, Quaker, treated native Americans fairly, made Pennsylvania a place of religious freedom
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Quakers
Protestant reformers who believe in the equality of all people
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Pennsylvania Dutch
German speaking Protestants who came to Pennsylvania, called Dutch because English couldn't pronounce deutsch
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Breadbasket colonies
Nickname for middle colonies because they exported so much grain
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Backcountry
Land along the eastern slope of the Appalachian mts where Germans and Scotch-Irish settlers traveled to
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Great wagon road
An old Iroquois trail that settlers followed to the back country
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Indigo
A plant used to make a valuable blue dye
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Debtor
People who owed money they couldn't pay back
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Plantation
A large estate farmed by many workers
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Slave code
Laws that controlled the lives of enslaved African Americans and denied them basic rights
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Mason Dixon line
Boundary between Pennsylvania and Maryland; divided middle and southern colonies;244 miles; Charles Dixon and Jeremiah mason
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Lord Baltimore
An English settler who was in charge of a colony, offered land and expanded colony, Maryland
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Act of toleration | 1649
A Maryland law that provides religious freedom for all Christians
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James Oglethorpe
Founder of Georgia, place for debtors, peace with native Americans
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Bacons rebellion
1676; raid against governor and native Americans in Virginia
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Tidewater
Land wahed by ocean tides
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Mercantilism
Theory that a nations economic strength came from keeping a strict control over its colonial trade
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Import
Goods brought into a country
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Export
Goods sent to markets outside a country
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Triangular trade
Colonial trade route between New England, the West Indies and west Africa
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Legislature
A group of people who have the power to make laws
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Bill of rights
Written list of freedoms the government promises to protect
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Navigation acts | 1650s
Series of English laws that regulated trade between England and its colonies
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Yankee
Nickname for New England merchants implying they are clever and hard working
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Glorious revolution | 1688
Movement that brought William and Mary to the throne of England and strengthened the rights if English citizens
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English bill of rights | 1689
A document that guaranteed the rights of English citizens
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Gentry
``` Top social class Wealthy planters, merchants, ministers, lawyers and royal officials ```
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Middle class
``` Social class below gentry Farmers, skilled crafts workers, traders ```
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Indentured servant
Person who agreed to work without pay for 4-7 years for anyone who would pay for them to go to America. Received freedom dues when done
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Public school
Schools paid for by taxes, anyone can go
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Apprentice
12/13 year old boy who worked for a master to learn a trade or craft 6-7 years
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Dame school
School for girls
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Libel
The act of publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a personas reputation
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Great awakening
1730s/1740s | Religious movement in the English colonies
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Enlightenment
Movement in Europe that emphasized the use of reason
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John Peter zenger
1734 | Man put on trial for criticizing New York governor, charged for libel, released
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Ben Franklin
Inventor:writer "Poor Richards almanac" Lighting rod, bifocals, no smoke fireplace, fame for public services
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Gullah
Language combining west African and English languages, South Carolina

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