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This state originally outlawed slavery, was a place for debtors to make a new start, and was a buffer for Spanish Florida.
What is Georgia?
The reason the Pilgrims and Puritans left Europe for the Americas.
What is avoiding religious persecution?
A colonist who received passage to America in exchange for working without pay for a certain number of years.
What is an indentured servant?
The center of politics in New England, where people discussed and decided local issues.
What is the town meeting?
Term that refers to people who move to another country after leaving their homeland.
What is an immigrant?
The group that originally founded the colony of New York.
Who was the Dutch?
A colony that promoted religious tolerance and was a refuge for English Catholics.
What is Maryland?
How women and children contributed to to the colonial economy.
What is making goods, sewing, baking, caring for animals, planting crops, etc?
The hands-off policy in which Britain interfered very little in colonial affairs.
What is salutary neglect?
Daughter of Powhatan chief whose marriage to John Rolfe eased tensions between the Powhatan and colonists.
Who is Pocahontas?
The director-general who originally led the colony of New York.
Who was Peter Stuyvesant?
The way in which Roger Williams disagreed with the Puritan leader of Massachusetts.
What is the separation of church and state?
Not an important part of the New England Colony. (Farming, trade, fishing, or ship building)
What is farming?
System that involved goods and enslaved people being traded among the Americas, Britain, and Africa.
What is the Triangular trade?
Include events like Washington's defeat at Fort Necessity, the British capture of Quebec, and the signing of the Treaty of Paris.
What is the chronological events of the French and Indian war?
Established by William Penn in the colony he founded.
What is an elected assembly?
The idea philosophers spread that would improve society.
What is reason?
The may in which the middle colonies economy was similar to the economy of the New England colonies.
What is overseas trade?
The way in which the passage of the English Bill of Rights affected the colonies.
What is encouraging colonists to highly value their right the elect representatives?
Results of the Proclamation of 1763.
What is colonists ignoring the law and settling on the western frontier?
Jamestown colonists did not face a problem with ______. (Famine and disease, fighting with Native Americans, threats from Spanish Florida, and poor preparation and farming)
What is threats of attack from enemies in Spanish Florida?
A philosopher from the Enlightenment period who influenced colonial politics.
Who was John Locke?
Experiences of indentured servants.
What is a 4-7 year contract, rarely freed, worked with cash crops, and controlled by strict laws?
Conditions enslaved Africans lived in ender English rule.
What is harsher conditions than under Dutch rule?
One of the most important leaders of the Great Awakening.
Who is Jonathan Edwards?