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13colonies
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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| mercantilism | an economic system that european nations used to enrich their treasuries |
| plantation | a large farm with many workers on which rice and tobacco were grown |
| backcountry | an area of land along the eastern slopes of the appalachian mountains |
| middle colonies | new york, pennsylvania, new jersey and delaware |
| new england colonies | new hamshire, massechusetts, conneticut and rhode island |
| southern colonies | maryland, virginia, north carolina, south carolina and georgia |
| charter | a written document giving the right to establish a colony |
| fundamental orders of conneticut | a document that has been said to be the first written constitution of America |
| house of burgess | virginia assembly which was the first representative assembly in the american colonies |
| propriertary colonies | a colony foberned by a single owner or propetier |
| royal colonies | colony ruled by the kings pointed officials |
| lord baltimore | founder of maryland and first colony that allowed people to freely practice catholic religion |
| james oglethorpe | founded georgia and was a place for debtors to settle |
| peter stuyvesant | first govenor of the dutch colony |
| roger williams | puritan dissenter who founded rhode island |
| john winthrop | first govenor of massechusets bay colony |
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