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Thirteen Colonies
7th grade
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| agricultural | process of cultivating and growing crops and raising livestock |
| religious freedom | freely practicing the religion of one's choosing |
| toleration | a willingness to let others practice their own beliefs |
| persecution | mistreatment of a person or group of people |
| John Rolfe | first to cultivate tobacco; married to Pocahontas |
| George Calvert | "Lord Baltimore" founded Maryland for the purposes of political and religious freedom |
| Roger Williams | founded Rhode Island for the purposes of religious freedom |
| Thomas Hooker | founder of Connecticut |
| Ann Hutchinson | was ordered out of Massachusetts by the Puritans and found refuge in Rhode Island |
| mother country | the country from which the original settlers came from |
| colony | group of people that settled in a different land; ruled by the government of original country |
| disease | sickness/illness that Native Americans were exposed to when they interacted with English colonists |
| small pox | a disease that the Colonist brought with them from Europe that killed many Native Americans |
| Middle Colonies | New York, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Delaware; temperate climate fertile soil |
| New England Colonies | Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New Hampshire: rocky soil, colder climate |
| Southern Colonies | Maryland, Virginia, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia; warm/moist climate for longer growing season |
| imports | goods that were brought into the colonies |
| exports | goods sold outside the colonies |
| cash crops | surplus crops sold in the world marked |
| triangular trade | trade route between the New England Colonies, the West Indies and Africa |
| mercantilism | build up gold/money supply and expand trade |
| tidewater | area of land along the coast |
| hands-on | a type of work where one uses their hands a lot. |
| craftsman | a person particularly skilled at art or crafts; wood crafts, pottery, shoe makerr |
| blacksmiths | makes or repairs iron/steel things by hand |
| carpenter | makes or repairs wooden objects |
| miner | worked to find gold, coal and metal in the Earth |
| miller | operates a mill to turn grains into flour |
| shipbuilder | makes and repairs ships; popular profession in New England colonies |
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