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Chapter 4
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Term | Definition |
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Proprietary colony | the king gave land to one or more people in return for a yearly payment |
Royal colony | a colony under the direct control of the english crown |
Bacon's Rebillion | a uprising |
Town Meeting | a general meeting of the inhabitants of a town |
Religious Tolerance | a willingness to let others practice their own beliefs |
Patroon | a person who held an estate in land with certain manorial priveleges |
Fundamental Orders of Connecticut | a plan of government |
Ouakers | one of the most despised religious groups in england |
Pennsylvania Dutch | German-speaking protestants |
Cash crops | Crops that are sold for money at market |
Mason-Dixon line | is a boundary between Pennsylvania and maryland |
Sabbath | the seventh day of the week |
General Court | a assembly |
Puritian | a religious group |
Slave code | treated enslaved Africans not as human beings but as property |
Debtors | people who owed money they couldn't pay back |
Indigo | a plant used to make a valuable blue dye |
Act Of Toleration | a law that provided religious freedom for all christian |