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Religious group that leg migration to Massachusetts in the 1630's.
Puritans
Owners of those large estates.
Patroons
It divided the middles colonies from the Southern colonies.
Mason-Dixon Line
Goods sent to markets outside a country.
Exports
Publishing a statement that may unjustly damage a person's reputation.
Libel
Right to vote for Governor to all male church members, eventually electing representatives to assembly.
General Court
Colony under the direct control of the English crown.
Royal Colony
Religious freedom for all Christians.
Act of Toleration
Goods brought into a country.
Imports
Farmers who worked their own land, skilled craftworkers & some tradespeople.
Middle Class
Holy day of rest, very seriously.
Sabbath
Crops that are sold for money at market.
Cash Crop
A plant to make a valuable blue dye.
Indigo
Nation became strong by keeping strict control over its trade.
Mercantilism
Huge religious movement of the 1730's-1740's.
Great Awakening
Settlers discussed & voted on many issues.
Town Meeting
Protestant Reformers who were despised in England.
Quakers
People who owned money and could not pay it back.
Debtors
The three legs of the route formed a triangle.
Triangular Trade
Worked for a master to learn the trade or craft.
Apprentices
Willingness to let others practice their own beliefs.
Religious Tolerence
The king gave land to one or more people in return for a yearly payment.
Proprietary Colony
Nathaniel Bacon organized angry men and women and they raised a Native American village and then they burned down the capital of Jamestown.
Bacon's Rebellion
A written list of freedoms the government promises to protect.
Bill of Rights
Reason and scientific methods could be applied to the study of society.
Enlightment