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Chapter 4
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| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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 |