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Colonial

VA/US History Colonial Period

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Puritans Group of English settlers who started a colony in America in Massachusetts in the 1600s.
Virginia Company of London English business venture that funded the Jamestown colony in Virginia.
Quakers Religious group that founded the Pennsylvania colony in Pennsylvania
Catholics Religious group that settled the British colony of Maryland in North America
religious tolerance the colonies in the Middle Atlantic region of North America were known for practicing this
Great Awakening a religious revival in the American colonies that led to a growth in the Baptist and Methodist religions
cash crops the main economic activity of the Southern American colonies
Cavaliers group of English noblemen who set up plantations in colonial Virginia
Virginia House of Burgesses the first elected assembly in the American colonies
indentured servants plantation workers whose passage to America had been paid for them by plantation owners
Appalachian Mountains region of American colonies that was settled by poor whites from England
Jamestown the first permanent settlement established by the British in North America
Philadelphia, New York, and Baltimore major trading cities that developed in the middle colonies in North America
shipbuilding and fishing the main economic activity of the New England colonies in North America
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