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Vocabulary
Vocabulary
100

The founders of Plymouth

What is a Pilgrim?

100

This colony formed out of New York

What is New Jersey?

100

The Southern Colonies were bordered on by this ocean

What is the Atlantic Ocean?

100

A religious group who wanted to purify the Church of England.

Who are the Puritans?

100

mistreatment or punishment of a group of people because of their beliefs

What is persecution?

200

On November 11, 1620 this was signed

What is the Mayflower Compact?

200

The Dutch set up this colony along the Hudson River

What is New Netherland?

200

Established the colony of Georgia

Who is James Oglethorpe?

200

meetings at which settlers voted on local church and governmental issues

What is a town meeting?

200

a crop grown for sale on a market rather than for a consumption by the grower's family

What is a cash crop?

300

The migration to Massachusetts Bay was led by this group

Who are the Puritans?

300

The governor of New Netherland

Who is Peter Stuyvesant?

300

Three crops that were raised in S. Carolina and Georgia

What are rice, indigo, and cotton?

300

A person who owes money, especially one having difficulty paying it back

What is a debtor?

300

A colony under the direct control of a king or queen (monarch)

What is a royal colony?

400

This person challenged the leaders of Massachusetts Bay

Who is Roger Williams?

400

New Jersey became this type of colony

What is a royal colony?

400

English sailors began referring to this passage for slave trading

What is the Middle Passage?

400

colonial assembly of Massachusetts, elected by all male church members

What is a General Court?

400

a member of the Society of Friends, a Christian group that faced discrimination in England

What is a Quaker?

500

This person was banned from Massachusetts for her beliefs

Who is Anne Hutchinson?

500

This person founded the colony of Pennsylvania

Who is William Penn?

500

This rebellion led to slave codes

What is Bacon's Rebellion?

500

a 1649 Maryland law that provided religious freedom for all Christians 

What the Act of Toleration?

500

a colony controlled and owned by one or more people called proprietors

What is a Proprietary colony?

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