Colonies Take Root
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| What was corn, beans, pumpkins or squash? | One the main crops the Native Americans helped the colonists grow
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| What were the Slave Codes? | Rules that denied African Americans their basic rights
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| Legislature | Group of people who had the power to make up laws
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| Middle passage | Africans were captured and taken to America to be sold into slavery. This was the name of their trip across the ocean into America
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| Massachusetts | Set up the first schools
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| Ben Franklin | Proved that Lightning was a form of electricity and he helped establish the USA
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| Puritans | Group who wanted to reform the church but they didn't want to separate from the church
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| Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | A plan of government that limited the governments power in their colony. Under this plan you did not have to be a male to vote
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| Slavery | The colony of Carolina split into 2 different colonies, North and South Carolina, because they couldn't settle this issue
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| James Oglethorpe | Established this colony so people wouldn't be jailed for their debts
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| Virginia Dare | First baby born in the New World
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| charter | a legal document giving certain rights to a person or company
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| John White | found that the settlers disappeared without a trace
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| Roanoke | land colonists landed on in 1565
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| Religious Prosecution | mistreatment or punishment of certain people because of their beliefs
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| pilgrim | a person who takes a religious journey
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| Squanto | he brought seeds to the Pilgrims
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| Who believed all people were equal in the eyes of God? | Quakers
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| What was the great wagon road? | an old Iroquois trail
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| What was the Mason Dixon line? | a line separating the middle and southern colonies
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| What was the Act of Toleration? | it provided religious freedom for everyone except Jewish people
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| Who was Nathaniel Bacon? | he organized a fight against the Native Americans and also burned down Jamestown
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| What was the colony named Georgia? | James Oglethorpe established this colony so people would not be jailed for their debts
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| What was mercantilism? | the belief that the main purpose of the colonies was to benefit the home country
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| What was the Triangular Trade Route? | the name of the trade route between New England, West Africa & the West Indies
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| What is an import? | trade items that are brought into America
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| What was a trial by jury? | anyone accused of a crime was given this right before they were sent to jail
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| Who had an average 7-8 children? | Puritan
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| What type of soil did New England have? | rocky and poor
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| What was a town meeting? | an assembly of people that decided on local issues
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| What was punishable by death? | witchcraft
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| Who was brought from Africa to do all the work for free? | slaves
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| What did Roger Williams think? | the church and the State should be separate
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| What is a proprietary colony? | when the king gives land to one or more of his people, and they in turn could rent out the land
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| What did New Amsterdam become known as? | New York
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| Who founded the colony called Pennsylvania? | William Penn
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| Where did Roger Williams escape from? | Narragansett Bay
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| What land did Roger Williams buy from the Indians? | Rhode Island
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| Who did King Charles give New Amsterdam to? | the Duke of York
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| What is toleration? | the belief that everybody had the right to practice their own religion in the colonies
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| Who was Anne Hutchinson? | she had bible readings in her home in Rhode Island and she criticized the religious beliefs of the Puritans.
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| What was set up under the leadership of Winthrop and other Puritans to grant their own assembly to govern themselves? | the General Court
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